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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

Jeff Raikes: 'Failure is not an option'

Microsoft must deliver the reliability, security and quality that enterprise IT demands -- at a much lower TCO. To that end, Microsoft VP Raikes tells David Berlind, the company is sinking significantly greater resources into R&D. "Sun and Oracle are companies that make good products," acknowledged Microsoft...

Tags: CIO, R&D, Commitment, Information Technology, Investment, Jeff Raikes, Server, Microsoft Corp., Computing, Organization, Research & Development, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, David Berlind

News items 2002-12-09

Microsoft's Office, Tablet PC pitcher

Q&A Jeff Raikes, the architect behind Microsoft's successful Office suite strategy, has big challenges ahead--revitalize Office sales and make Tablet PC work. As a part-time professional baseball owner--he owns a minority stake in the Seattle Mariners--and a full-time software geek, Microsoft's Jeff Raikes is quite used to wearing...

Tags: PC, Tablet PC, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software, Charles Cooper

News items 2002-10-02

Will Tablet PC read your chicken scratch?

The Tablet PC operating system matches people's scrawls against the company's own database of handwriting samples. But there is some debate as to whether to tailor it to the individual. Microsoft is looking for a better way to make sense of your chicken scratch. ...

Tags: Software, Database, Handwriting, Handwriting Recognition, PC, Operating System, Tablet PC, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Newton, Graffiti, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ian Fried

News items 2002-09-26

MS to unveil new Office, Tablet PC plans

Microsoft, looking to expand its desktop software monopoly into new areas, on Tuesday announced plans for a new version of its cash cow, Office, and the launch of the first Tablet PC systems. Jeff Raikes, Microsoft group vice president, made the announcements during a keynote speech on...

Tags: PC, Tablet PC, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software, Mike Ricciuti

News items 2002-06-25

Microsoft unveils new Office plans

At TechXNY, Microsoft takes the wraps off Office 11--it's set to replace Office XP in 2003. Better XML support will allow easier links to desktop programs. Microsoft, looking to expand its desktop software monopoly into new areas, on Tuesday announced plans for a new version of its cash cow,...

Tags: PC, Tablet PC, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software, Mike Ricciuti

News items 2002-06-25

Microsoft dives into server apps biz

Analysis: Is Microsoft's purchase of Great Plains Software mere Oracle envy? Or an inevitable e-commerce play? On Thursday, Microsoft made a move that some considered inevitable, and others considered a reversal of a long-time commitment not to compete with its software partners: It bought a piece of the server-application...

Tags: Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Jeff Raikes, Great Plains Software, Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Servers, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Management, Software, Hardware, Mary Foley, Technology News

News items 2000-12-21

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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