Digital Noise:
Seattle has an overabundance of rock musicians for a city its size, from pure garage amateurs to club bands to touring stars. Microsoft employs about 40,000 people in the Seattle area today, and there are legions of ex-Microsofties who stuck around after they left the company. So there’s bound to be some overlap between the two groups. Jim Allchin, who led Windows development for more than a decade, is among them. Now Allchin is releasing an album. Although Allchin’s fairly famous in the tech community, he’s probably the second most famous ex-Microsoft guitarist. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, a longstanding guitar player, released an album with his band Grown Men a few years ago. He’s particularly well-known in Seattle music circles for jam sessions that can occur any time, any place.