jeff raikes Resources on ZDNet

ZDNet Resources

Microsoft Biz Unit Chief jeff raikes to head Gates Foundation: For all those wondering what Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes would do once he retires from Microsoft in September, the uncertainty is over. Raikes is going to become the new CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Raikes is replacing another former...; Tags: Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-12
The Orphan Gets Orphaned Again: Jeff Raikes is leaving Microsoft, and that means that once again, Microsoft Dynamics is a victim of the shifting sands and musical chairs at a Microsoft that seems less and less dedicated to its enterprise applications offerings. While it's clear that there remains official, executive-level commitment to Dynamics, in the...; Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-01-11
Microsoft shake-up: The e-mails on President Raikes' depature: We know what Microsoft told press and analysts about yesterday's announcement by Microsoft Business Development (MBD) President Jeff Raikes that he'll be passing the torch, come September, to former Juniper Networks Chief Operating Officer Stephen Elop. But what did Raikes and CEO Steve Ballmer tell Microsoft's near-80,000 employees about the...; Tags: Jeff Raikes, Business, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Business Development, Jeff, Stephen, Microsoft Business Solutions, Leadership, Professional Development, E-mail, Business Structures, Management, Career, Online Communications, Finance, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-01-11
Juniper Networks exec to succeed Microsoft Business Division President Raikes: In what I consider surprising timing, Microsoft announced on January 10 that one of its three corporate presidents, Jeff Raikes, is retiring in September 2008. Raikes will be succeeded by Stephen Elop, who until today was chief operating officer at Juniper Networks, according to a Microsoft statement....; Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Helm, Stephen, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-01-10
Microsoft's 'click to communicate' for the Windows world: At the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, a stage where I last saw Bob Dylan perform, Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes ushered in the era of unified communications. The event started with a guitarist, using a guitar with Microsoft Unified Communications plastered on it, played a few notes to some rock...; Tags: Jeff Raikes, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Unified Communications Platform, Microsoft Windows, Business Structures, Telephony, VOIP, Tools & Techniques, Telecommunications, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Networking, Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-16

Microsoft OCS SIP an advantage over Cisco?: We start by noting Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes' remarks last Thursday that Office Communications Server 2007 and the Office Communicator client are now code complete.The promise of this combination is that VOIP, IM, conferencing and presence will all be under one solution.Office Communications Server 2007, in public beta...; Tags: microsoft, Avaya; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Microsoft to launch Office Communications Server 2007 this fall: Microsoft will launch the latest versions of its unified communications products -- Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 client -- sometime this fall.Microsoft is on track to release to manufacturing the two OCS products on Friday, July 27, according to Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes.Raikes, who...; Tags: Web conferencing, VOIP, Telecommunications, System builders, Speech, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office 2007, Office, OEMs; Blog posts 2007-07-26
No demand for Microsoft Office in the cloud?: While I was at the SAP Sapphire 2007 conference this week I ran into Jeff Raikes, president of Microsofts Business Division. He was at the event to promote the extended roadmap of Duet, the collaboration between the two companies that integrates Microsoft Office and SAP business processes. I asked Raikes...; Tags: General, Microsoft, Office 2.0, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-04-26
One giant step for VoIP: Microsoft to announce opening of Office Communications Server interop specs today: Ive long advocated for some sort of native click-to-call capanility built within Microsoft Office applications. For example, you create a PowerPoint file, and have the ability from within PowerPoint to initiate a call to talk with colleagues or customers about additional elements might be added to the PPT.Were finally seeing...; Tags: microsoft, General; Blog posts 2007-03-07
Microsoft's unified communications...next year: Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's Business Division, laid out the roadmap for Microsoft's communications products, most of which won't show up until at least a year from now. It's one way to give customers hope for the future, and keep them in the fold, that Microsoft can help them overcome...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Anoop Gupta, Jeff Raikes; Blog posts 2006-06-26
Do no simple: Google did some smart yesterday. They somehow seeded the impression that they were heading directly at the pot of gold at the end of the RSS rainbow. You can play along at home with the webcast, but I'm warning you: the first half is Google in a Nutshell (could...; Tags: Google Inc., Jeff Raikes, RSS; Blog posts 2005-05-20
Microsoft's Raikes 'blogs' own dog food consumption, but sans RSS: The bad news is that it's not a blog when it should have been. Microsoft's Information Worker Business group vice president Jeff Raikes had?a golden opportunity to prove that he and Microsoft "get it" by joining the ranks of tech executives who blog. Instead, he?chose the more anitquated (I can't...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Jeff Raikes; Blog posts 2005-04-13

Additional Resources

News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group: AMD on Monday named a new head of its computing solutions group and created a central engineering unit to improve execution at the chipmaker. Among the moving parts: Randy Allen was promoted to lead the computing solutions group at AMD, which focuses on the...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Workstations, Processors, Human Resources, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]: Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service (SaaS) development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...; Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Morse Code Rickroll 0-day... no, seriously, I mean it: In the security research world, getting Rickrolled has become a global epidemic. If you've been to any of the recent conferences, you're sure to have been Rickrolled at least once... if you were fortunate enough to be at ToorCon Seattle, then you got Rickrolled about 300 times by Dan Kaminsky....; Tags: Morse Plc., I/O, XSS, Encryption, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-04
Extracting the structure of networks: Extracting the structure of networksAnother example of hierarchical organizationIs it news that a lot of things are organized hierarchically?For one more hypothesized example, see Jeff Hawkins heirarchical temporal memory.THANK YOU!!!Great article! This is exactly the kind of cutting edge emerging knowledge I need. Very valuable.; Tags: network; Discussion threads 2008-05-04
SAP's Business ByDesign: Explaining the Delays: In the wake of the brouhaha surrounding the delayed rollout of Business ByDesign and the allegations of technical difficulties (the thread in the Enterprise Irregulars discussion was called BBD=DOA?), I spoke to Hans-Peter Klaey and Jeff Stiles, the two men at SAP responsible for bringing BBD, and the rest of...; Tags: SAP AG, BBD, Sales Force Management, Performance Management, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-05-02
House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act: So, we have a credit crisis, a foreclosure crisis, a full-blown recession and no plans on how to get out of Iraq or how to create a regional solution. So what do we need? How about an intellectual property czar and stiffer penalties for unauthorized music downloading? ...; Tags: Damage, CD, IP, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Spigit mashes up social software to reveal innovation: Take the idea of community, sprinkle liberally with process, add a dash of prediction market thinking and a soupcon of reputation analysis, stir gently without too much mashing and you have InnovationSpigit. I really like this idea because it solves one of the...; Tags: Innovation, Idea, Spigit, InnovationSpigit, Research & Development, LDAP, Leadership, Games, Strategy, Business Operations, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-01