Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer currently working at Microsoft.
Along with Bob Atkinson, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, and Dave Winer, Don was one of the original four designers of SOAP, a basic messaging layer for web services.
In January 2011, he joined Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) as a developer on next-generation platform technology for entertainment and gaming.
Prior to joining IEB, he worked on Brad Lovering's team working on model-driven runtime and tool support at Microsoft, including Oslo (Microsoft). Don was also an architect on Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as Indigo) and related technologies.
Before joining Microsoft in 2002, Don was a contributing editor and columnist at Microsoft Systems Journal, which later became MSDN Magazine. Don was also a conspicuous figure in the Component Object Model (COM) community, where he coined the phrase "COM is love." He is also a series editor for Addison Wesley where he launched two successful series targeting the Microsoft developer audience. He was also one of the founders of the DevelopMentor software training company. He left DevelopMentor to join Microsoft.
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