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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

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Long-time Microsoft evangelist retires

Microsoft veteran Sanjay Parthasarathy is leaving the company after 19 years. During the most recent round of Microsoft layoffs, two of Parthasarathy's Startup Accelerator projects, the .Net Micro Framework and the ResponsePoint small-business phone system, were cut back significantly. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Phone, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out

On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions. As with any Microsoft early-year reorg -- which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews -- there are winners and losers. Check out my slideshow of who's in and who's out as a...

Tags: Mobile, VP, Vice President, Microsoft Corp., Senior Vice President, Corporate, Vehghte, Lees, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Building an energy efficient home computer

You say you want a revolution?Energy efficient data centers are in the news again, with the EPA reporting that data centers use 1.5% of US electricity - almost 6 million home's worth - and doubling in five years. But what about your home data center? My house has 2 wireless...

Tags: Home PC, Disk, Data Center, I/O, System, CPU, Computer, Energy Efficiency, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Microsoft reorgs again

On May 18, Microsoft announced that it is moving its Server and Tools unit out from under Platforms and Services to the Microsoft Business Division MBD. That means Senior Vice President Bob Muglia's group now falls under MBD President Jeff Raikes' organization. Muglia will report directly to Raikes as part...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Database, Development tools, SQL Server

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Microsoft Tech Summit: The 'non-fanboys' descend on Redmond

Microsoft is big on inviting not just its customers and partners, but non-believers, too, to visit the Microsoft campus and discover for themselves that Softies are people, too. (And who better to ask than Java, PHP and Linux developers -- as Microsoft execs seemingly did several times during...

Tags: WPF/e, Windows server, Windows client, Web 2.0, Visual Studio Orcas, Shared Source, Linux, Development tools, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-03-30

The real question: How to keep Microsoft on the transparency track

The April Wired Magazine cover story on "Radical Transparency," with its case study on Microsofts Channel 9 and blogging initiatives, is making some waves, but for the wrong reasons. Some media members are simply shocked that Microsofts PR team keeps dossiers on the reporters and bloggers who cover the...

Tags: Public relations, Blogging, Microsofts, Microsoft Corp., dossier, team

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Take the guesswork out of software project estimation: Investigate size, effort, and scheduling of projects

Heads of large IT organizations continue to be tormented by one of the most difficult facets of managing IT business: controlling their budgets. Estimates that cover costs towards discretionary and non-discretionary expenses, including operational and infrastructure costs, have always been a source of dispute and ambiguity. Unlike hard facts and...

Tags: Software, Software Project, Addison-Wesley, Tools & Techniques, Management

Book chapters 2007-03-27

It's the experience stupid!

Talking about specific technologies is fun and covering the news is good, but in the end, why the hell do we care about Rich Internet Applications? Whats the point? Why does having a better designer-developer workflow matter? Because if we focus on experience, were going to make software better and...

Tags: Design, Devigner Workflow, Experience, Rich Internet Applications, User Interface

Blog posts 2007-02-22

The Hindu: Carrying Lotus files on a thumb drive

The first-ever reporter from India to coverLotusphere live, Anand Parthasarathy reports on his journey to Orlando:Yet,all these seemingly trivial tools of electronic 'social networking', arebeing increasingly moulded into 'hardened' versions by corporate collaboration-and-communicationtools that are collectively known as 'groupware'. And unsurprisingly, the mother of allgroupware...

Tags: tool, IBM Corp., Hindu, Carrying

Blog posts 2006-02-02

Tamil Ringtone - Elang Kaatu 1 (Mobile)

Pithamagan, "Sriram Parthasarathy, Shreya Ghosal", Tamil, 16 Polyphonic ringtone

Tags: Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2005-12-29