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- Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?
- Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?Define "making money"If a unit in and of itself loses $1 billion a year, but another unit benefits by $$3 billion a year as a result of that unit's existence, do you close it? And how do you make such measures reliably?Example: Internet Explorer.If...
- Tags: Workforce management, He/She/It, Microsoft Corp., layoff, future layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-07-24
- Windows 7 to be ready for holiday shopping season
- Microsoft has finally acknowledged what outside observers have realized for some time: Windows 7 is going to be ready this year, in time for the holiday shopping season. That's the official message from the opening of Tech-Ed 2009 in Los Angeles today: Microsoft Tech*Ed North America 2009 kicked off...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD
- Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSDMinWinMary, why do you insist on MinWin when he constantly makes it clear that it's not Windows 7? They will use some of the ideas from MinWin and apply them, but it is essentially going to be the improved Vista kernel. Something like...
- Tags: BIOS, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD
- Jon DeVaan -- the "mystery man" behind Windows 7 -- is the Senior Vice President in charge of Microsoft's Core Operating System Division COSD. I had a chance to ask DeVaan some questions last week about how COSD works and about one of COSD's better-known if still largely misunderstood initiatives:...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Team, Microsoft Windows 7, Core Operating System Division, MinWin, MJF, Team Management, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Jon DeVaan: The mystery man behind Windows 7
- Jon DeVaan: The mystery man behind Windows 7lets talk about YahooMJ, write something about Yahoo please. sorry i have to say somthing not to do with your topic. for the first time, i am excited about it, because it is getting real every minutes. here is what I see:msft buys...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Jon DeVaan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Jon DeVaan: The mystery man behind Windows 7
- The public face of the Windows development-chief duo is Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky, who runs Windows and Windows Live Engineering. The private face is Jon DeVaan, the head of Microsoft's Core Operating System Division COSD. I had a chance to interview DeVaan by phone this week on his role...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Team, Idea, Microsoft Corp., Jon DeVaan, MJF, JD, Engineering Excellence, Microsoft Office, Office Suites
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7
- The incredibly tight veil of secrecy around Windows 7 is about to lift, at least a little. After months of information lockdown, Microsoft is ready to begin talking about the next version of Windows. The first bits of information come from the very top, with a new blog written by...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, PDC, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper
- Update: Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate...
- Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Veteran Windows architect resigns from Microsoft
- On the heels of a week of news of a number of Microsoft executive departures and reshufflings, another has come to light. Rob Short, Corporate Vice President for Windows Core, has resigned from the company. While Short's departure won't make anywhere near the headlines that Microsoft President...
- Tags: Team, I/O, Microsoft Corp., Core Operating System Division, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Microsoft puts the post-Vista wheels in motion
- Windows Vista is not fully baked, but that doesnt mean senior management isnt already thinking about "Vista+1" as they like to call the next Windows client release (the one I believe is -- or at least was -- code-named "Fiji"). Microsoft has not yet built or tested even a...
- Tags: COSD Jon DeVaan
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
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