Today, another job description related to Windows as a service was spotted on Microsoft’s career site. It was for a position of software engineer who will work on Windows team to improve the client software delivery mechanism. What would it take to modify the windows start menu on every Windows user machine in less than a week? Microsoft is creating a new system that will fundamentally change the way Windows is shipping. Instead of monthly and yearly updates delivered through Windows update mechanism, Microsoft will be able to apply updates to user’s system without any major intervention in the background.

The world of software evolves at a faster and faster pace. Online services are shipping every week, why not client software? What would it take to modify the windows start menu on every Windows user machine in less than a week? To issue a video driver fix and to offer all the people who have run into issues it in less than 2 days? How do you help every developer test his changes at large scale and provide him the exact information he needs to debug obscure issues that never happen on any of his machines? If any of these problems seem interesting to you, Windows mission control might be the right place for you.

The Mission Control team is seeking a strong developer to help advance the state of client software delivery. We are creating a new system that will fundamentally change the way Windows is shipping to put the ecosystem at the center of Windows. We want every engineer to get an immediate view of how he/she is affecting the Windows ecosystem by providing qualitative and quantitative information that will allow them to take the necessary decisions in real time.