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Vista marketing chief to bid Microsoft adieu

Michael Sievert, Corporate Vice President for Windows Product Marketing, is moving on, according to multiple sources of mine. It's hard to make the case that Sievert, who was responsible for the worldwide introduction of Windows Vista, isn't being pushed for the less-than-enthusiastic public perception of Microsoft's latest...

Tags: Marketing, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Michael Sievert, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-04

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Another Windows veteran to leave Microsoft

Will Poole, a Microsoft Windows veteran -- and most recently, Corporate Vice President in charge of the company's Unlimited Potential group -- is retiring, according to sources who asked not to be named. Poole, who has been at Microsoft 12 years, previously was the Senior Vice President...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Poole, Ayala, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Microsoft removes another one of WGA's fangs

This morning Microsoft announced another noteworthy change to its flagship Windows Genuine Advantage WGA program - an update to be rolled out later this month to all Vista users that will display a WGA warning dialog box when it detects either of two common Vista activation cracks. In the same announcement,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Microsoft goes internal for a new OEM chief

Microsoft has been looking for a new head of its OEM business since late last year. It has found one: Steve Guggenheimer, head of the company's application platform business. Guggenheimer will become the new Corporate Vice President in charge of Microsoft's OEM Divisionas of early March. He...

Tags: OEM, Microsoft Corp., Steve Guggenheimer, Steven Guggenheimer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95, Leadership, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Post Vista, Microsoft reorgs the Windows group

As typical, following a major product release, Microsoft is reorging. This time, following Windows Vistas launch, its Windows client business unit doing the shuffle, according to sources close to the company. Heres whats happening. Kevin Johnson, head of Microsofts uber Platforms and Services unit, has created a new business...

Tags: Anti-piracy, Corporate strategy, Windows client, Vista

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Microsoft hits home run in NYC: Willie Randolph helps launch Vista

Microsoft was in full force in the Big Apple today for “the most significant product launch in Microsoft Corp.’s history.” Microsoft made the rounds to technology retailers in New York City in conjunction with the release to consumers of the Windows Vista operating system and Microsoft Office 2007.One of the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2007-01-30

Still no sign of Vista coupons

Microsoft rolled out on October 12 a partial list of third-party peripherals and software that will be certified to interoperate with Windows Vista in time for the holiday season. But the company still has yet to drop the much bigger shoe, by announcing the Vista coupon...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-10-12

More confirmation: WGA to be baked into Vista

My blogging colleague Ed Bott has seen the future, re: Windows Genuine Advantage WGA. And it’s not pretty. To date, users have had to deal with Microsoft’s WGA and Office Genuine Advantage OGA anti-piracy mechanisms when attempting to download new bits from Microsoft’s various download servers. But as of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-09-25