Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
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Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
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Re: Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
#2I always thought that Sinofsky was a driving force behind some of the changes that preceded Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. This comes as a great surprise to me and I hesitate to think who would be in a good position to follow him (and ultimately who would fill Ballmer's shoes in the company).
Re: Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
#3I predict the Start button will make a return.
Re: Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
#4I always thought that Sinofsky was a driving force behind some of the changes that preceded Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. This comes as a great surprise to me and I hesitate to think who would be in a good position to follow him (and ultimately who would fill Ballmer's shoes in the company).
Is this related to some reactions regarding Windows 8? Or simply some internal issues between Sinofsky and other execs?
Re: Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
#5I am not sure what that means at the moment but he was a strong man in the company so that he even prevented Xbox and Windows Phone divisions to develop an OS other than Windows. He was also being called as the next CEO of the company. I am not sure if that has anything to do with Win8. He was working at the company since 1989. (I was born in that year)
Re: Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
#6I always thought that Sinofsky was a driving force behind some of the changes that preceded Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. This comes as a great surprise to me and I hesitate to think who would be in a good position to follow him (and ultimately who would fill Ballmer's shoes in the company).
Is this related to some reactions regarding Windows 8? Or simply some internal issues between Sinofsky and other execs?
Ballmer sent out an internal email about that but the company employees don't know why either.
Re: Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
#7I soo wish the firms would give out more than boilerplate in such cases. If only we knew the actual reason... Now we're forced to speculate.
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#8This is really really sad. Everyone must be very disappointed (Especially mini-microsoft).
And the new head is a PM..heading windows engineering.
More on Julie from Mary Jo:
[1]"Larson-Green applied to Microsoft right after she got her business management degree from Western Washington University, only to be told no. But she did land a job at desktop-publishing-software maker Aldus working on the product support call lines.
Microsoft "discovered" Larson-Green after a few Softies attended a talk she gave comparing Microsoft compilers to Borland compilers and asked her to run a Visual C++ focus group for the company. In 1993, she ended up landing a job on the Visual C++ team, where focused on the integrated development environment. She moved to the Internet Explorer team (where she worked on the user experience for IE 3.0 and 4.0) and then, in 1997, to the Office team to work on FrontPage, where she got her first group program manager job. She also did a stint on the SharePoint Team Services team, back when SharePoint was known as "Office.Net.""
[1]http://www.zdnet.com/who-is-julie-larson-green-meet-the-new-...
Looks like the beginning of the end to me.
On a conspiracy note, is Ballmer kicking out all his potential competitors?
Re: Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
#9Am I the only one who has never heard of this guy?
Re: Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
#10Ouch.
I never worked in one of Sinofski's orgs, but I know quite a few people who did. I got the impression that a lot of old timers and under-performers disliked him. Most of the people that I really respected liked him. From my perspective, that's the best kind of "divisive figure" to have.
Maybe he pushed too hard...