Xbox 360 HD-DVD Interview

Who are you and what do you do?
My name’s Shaheen Gandhi. I’m a developer on the Xbox Console & Consumer Software team. We own all the software that goes on Xbox 360 that’s not a game. We wrote the operating system, dashboard, guide, etc. For 360, I did a lot of work on the input and voice software. For the HD DVD Player, I did a bunch of DRM and integration.
How long have you worked for Microsoft?
I’ve worked at Microsoft full-time for about 3.5 years. I had interned for Microsoft a couple of years before hand in a related Xbox group. I consider myself insanely lucky to have worked on Xbox 360 as my first product outside of college.
How did you become part of the HD-DVD development team?
This was pretty natural. After Xbox 360 shipped last year, I looked around at the various projects going on around Xbox and decided it was the most interesting for me. I was given the opportunity to own a lot of the security architecture for the player, while other, more capable, people handled the software architecture.
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