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- Microsoft Biz Unit Chief Jeff Raikes to head Gates Foundation
- Microsoft Biz Unit Chief Jeff Raikes to head Gates FoundationNice...So he'll be the man in charge of the foundation that this year awarded me the Gates Millenium Scholarship...nice to know.An Executive CatamaranJiminy Cricket. Some coasters in this world have sails that are miles wide. Not only did...
- Tags: biz unit, Gates Foundation, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- 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
- 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
- The Microsoft reorg week in review
- It's time, yet again, to update the ever-changing Microsoft org chart. Here's another piece to add to the seemingly never-ending stream of Microsoft reorg news: Developer and Platform Evangelism DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy has given up his post (as of mid-December, 2007). Parthasarathy has led evanglism of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Parthasarathy, Microsoft DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Microsoft Word, Investment, Finance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Microsoft looking to Fast for scale, Web search help
- Beyond supplementing Microsoft's SharePoint technology, what will Fast Search & Transfer, Microsoft's latest acquisition target, contribute to Microsoft's search products and strategy? Microsoft and Fast shared a few more tidbits about potential areas of cooperation during a conference call with press and analysts on January 8. ...
- Tags: Web, Internet Search, Microsoft Corp., Fast Search & Transfer, Search, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 billion; Likely to trigger enterprise search consolidation
- Microsoft said Tuesday that it will offer $1.2 billion in cash for Fast Search and Transfer FAST, a big player in the enterprise search market. The move is sure to shake up the enterprise search market, which thus far has been dominated by a series of smaller...
- Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Consolidation, Microsoft Corp., Fast Search, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Google vs. Microsoft = Search + Apps
- The New York Times has a story on the battle brewing between Google and Microsoft. The story doesn't add anything new or Google knols to the converging paths of the two companies. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said 90 percent of computing action--“almost everything you do in a company, almost everything...
- Tags: Google Inc., New York Times Co., Microsoft Corp., Search, Channel Management, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Office Suites, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Where is the world is Ray Ozzie?
- Where is the world is Ray Ozzie?There have got to be a lot of internal fights going on, so they don't letOzzie talk. The fact that the evangelist role is so important right now, and that Ray Ozzie is such a good and articulate speaker, means that something is terribly...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Google Inc., advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
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