what I think about astonishing timing, Microsoft announced on January ten that 1 of its 3 company presidents, Jeff Raikes, is retiring in September 2008. is going to be succeeded by Stephen Elop, who till today was chief operating officer at Juniper Networks, in accordance with a Microsoft statement. Elop will oversee the Microsoft Organisation Division, the group Raikes at this time leads, which consists of the data Employee (Microsoft Office), Unified Communications and Microsoft Organisation Alternatives (ERP/CRM) groups. do I consider the announcement about Raikes surprising? If I had been Microsoft, I wouldn’t want a lot of churn during the year that Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates is discontinuing his day-to-day duties at the company as of July 1. up his CSA hat and remaining Chairman only
mistake: Even though Gates still is quite involved in product/strategy decisions, he hasn’t been Chief Software Architect on paper since 2006. ) reason I think about the Raikes announcement timing odd: Why announce Raikes’ departure a day after acknowledging the defection of your mergers and acquisitions chief Bruce Jaffe? You could make the argument that Microsoft wants to get all its defection/churn announcements out of the way at once. But I’m not sure I’d look at things the same way, if I had been 1 of the company’s “image makers”…. also announced on January ten that Bob Muglia,
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buy microsoft windows 7 generator key, there’s time for the new guy to influence the future direction of Workplace, and the Bill Gates transition is done. Raikes gets credit for keeping the Workplace company moving along, diversifying it into servers, and handling Server & Tools (along with Bob Muglia) so that Kevin Johnson could focus on the online strategy. new hire (Elop) seems to have the right background to pull off one particular of the big strategic efforts in Raikes’ home business: Positioning Workplace and SharePoint not just as products that are used out of the box, but as platforms for application development.” has been emphasizing over the past few months the extent to which Microsoft is betting on unified communications as what will drive the company’s business-productivity unit in the coming years. Given that emphasis, the company’s decision to go outside in choosing Raikes’ successor makes makes more sense. explains Elop’s qualifications this way: his experience and record of success at Juniper, Adobe, Macromedia, and other leading companies, Stephen Elop is uniquely qualified to step in for Jeff (Raikes) and lead MBD (Microsoft Online business Division). Stephen’s experience spanning collaboration tools,
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