Jeffrey Snover is retired and spending his time as a Philosopher-Errant, attending Science & Technology conferences and giving public talks. Prior to retiring in 2026, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Google and a Technical Fellow at Microsoft where he was an AI Architect in Office, the Chief Architect for Windows Server Azure Stack. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell.
Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products.
Snover held 8 patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.
This web site is for his musings about Science, AI, PowerShell, software in general and anything else that he’s currently intrigued by.
What is your opinion on ReactOS?
I have not looked at it.. what is your opinion of it?
Jeffrey, it has been a privilege to have met you in person after a Microsoft conference and for the valuable career advice you gave from your personal experience.
Please keep writing here.
Best regards,
Pooja Gupte
PM, Microsoft Azure
Just saw your speech clip on C# creeping into windows and ms products. Priceless. I totally agree!
I personally felt it first time when they moved bunch of UI code in visual studio to C# and totally ruined it for me.
His master piece is powershell
Learned a new word today.
Opines is the third-person singular present tense of the verb opine, which means to state or express an opinion. It generally involves sharing a viewpoint, belief, or judgment on a subject
thx for triggering an Inquiring mind