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Windows 8’s early uptake doesn’t seem to be too impressive, the Surface tablet is yet to take off, Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger will be soon retired, and Windows XP will go dark in less than one year. All these decisions turned Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer into one of the most criticized exe... |
18 April 2013
02:27 GMT |
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Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, the man who’s slowly destroying the Redmond empire according to many voices online, has turned 57 the same day when Windows Blue, the upcoming upgrade of Windows 8, leaked online.
While we don’t know what Ballmer has to say about this early Windows Blue build that re... |
25 March 2013
04:58 GMT |
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Even though a recent research indicated that most employees still find Steve Ballmer the perfect leader for Redmond-based tech giant Microsoft, former executives and analysts continue to criticize the CEO for some of its recent decisions. Joachim Kempin, a Microsoft executive between 1983 and 2002, will release a bo... |
22 January 2013
03:08 GMT |
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Former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky has recently posted a tweet from an iPhone and even though he said he was just trying to evaluate competition, many have criticized him for his attempt to dump Microsoft’s products. Sinofsky has written a new blog post to explain his decision to use an iPhone every once in a... |
16 January 2013
02:57 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky, a former head of the Windows division and the man responsible for Windows 8, is no longer working for Microsoft, but he remains a big fan of the Surface RT tablet.
While he was spotted with his Surface every once in a while, Sinofsky is also using an iPhone to tweet his thoughts. And his latest post... |
14 January 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has already announced in December that Research and Strategy Chief Craig Mundie would retire, but the company refused to reveal the name of his successor. Although Microsoft is yet to make this public, it appears that Eric Rudder has already been named the Head of Microsoft Research, Trustworthy Computing ... |
14 January 2013
08:13 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky, the former Windows boss that was ousted from Microsoft in November, has created a new personal blog called “Learning by Shipping” to share “thoughts and perspectives on product development, management and the process of bringing new products to market.” Even though most peopl... |
4 January 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer may be forced to retire a bit earlier in case Windows 8 doesn’t manage to boost sales in the near future, some analysts have hinted, and according to our users, such a change would really come in handy for the Redmond-based technology company.
Even though Ballmer previously ... |
22 December 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky has announced on his Twitter profile that he would start teaching at Harvard Business School in Massachusetts in spring 2013.
“Excited to return to @HarvardHBS to teach again this spring! New perspectives, recharge, share experiences, write. #sabbatical,” he wrote on t... |
20 December 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Ever since Microsoft officially announced Windows 8, company CEO Steve Ballmer continuously bragged about the new operating system, calling its launch at least as important as Windows 95’s debut. He said that Windows 8 has the power to “reinvent” the computing world and emphasized that it has all t... |
17 December 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky decided to leave Microsoft last month and although there were plenty of rumors regarding his departure, we’re yet to find out the official reason. Attending LeWeb Paris today, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group Steven Guggenheimer talked to&... |
5 December 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The former Windows boss Steve Sinofsky has officially left Microsoft a few weeks ago, but he’s still a Microsoft employee until the end of the year, as the company recently revealed. Sinofsky has avoided making headlines after his departure from Microsoft, so we still don’t know for sure whether he&rsquo... |
29 November 2012
16:51 GMT |
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The Surface RT may be the first tablet in Microsoft’s history, but the Redmond-based company has actually planned such a device since the debut of Windows 7.
A report by ExtremeTech on the departure of Windows boss Steven Sinofsky claims that Microsoft actually wanted to develop a Windows 7 tablet. Sinofsky, h... |
20 November 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky has left Microsoft (although it turns out he’s still a Redmondian until December 31), so Julie Larson-Green is now the new head of the Windows and Windows Live division.
In an interview with ABC News, Green used the same “Windows reinvented” tagline we’ve heard so many times b... |
20 November 2012
04:27 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky has announced last week that he was leaving Microsoft, but while the resignation has already been confirmed, the former Windows boss remains an employee until December 31.
Microsoft said in a Form 8-K filling sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission that Sinofsky would continue to receive a ... |
19 November 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is considered one of the best companies to work for in the entire world, but an ex-Microsoft manager says this isn’t entirely true. A former exec who refused to provide his name for obvious reasons told us that working for Microsoft isn’t at all a dream come true, but rather a very exhausting c... |
16 November 2012
08:23 GMT |
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Windows 8 dumps the traditional Start Menu and instead adopts a “confusing” Start Screen that relies on live tiles to let users launch apps from a single screen. Steven Sinofsky, the former Windows boss, is one of the main Microsoft executives who wanted to replace the Start Menu with a Start Screen, cla... |
16 November 2012
04:26 GMT |
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More and more studies are pointing out that previous Windows users aren’t quite willing to make the move to Windows 8, but Steve Ballmer can’t stop praising the new operating system.
Speaking with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman at the Churchill Club, Steve Ballmer once again said that Microsoft has re-ima... |
15 November 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky left Microsoft a couple of days ago, but he still has one serious reason to smile. Although he’s unemployed right now, Sinofsky is filthy rich. Citing official documents of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, ComputerWorld.com writes that Sinofsky owns approximately 650,000 shares of the... |
15 November 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky is no longer head of the Microsoft Windows division and voices familiar with the matter have hinted that he had decided to quit because he wanted to replace Steve Ballmer at the helm of the company.
That’s not the case, Sinofsky said in a short comment to a blog post of Hal Berenson, a former M... |
15 November 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky, the man in charge with Windows 7 and Windows 8 development, has left the Redmond-based technology company, so Microsoft needs to reconsider some of its long-term strategies. The first step: to stop the secrecy, analysts recommend, pointing out that all these mysteries surrounding Microsoft’s l... |
15 November 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Two women are now in charge of Microsoft’s Windows division, but the mystery behind Sinofsky’s departure continues to deepen.
Several Microsoft insiders have hinted that Steven Sinofsky wasn’t getting along with the other executives within the Redmond-based technology company, so CEO Steve Ballmer ... |
14 November 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky’s departure was clearly a shock for the entire technology industry, as the former Windows boss was believed to be one of the possible replacements for Steve Ballmer at the helm of Microsoft.
While the official reasons provided by Ballmer and other Microsoft executives on Sinofsky’s decisi... |
14 November 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is making a road trip in Europe and Israel, in an attempt to promote the company’s new wave of products, including the newly-released Windows 8 operating system.
Just as expected, he continuously praised Windows 8 and the Surface, saying that all these products are actually helping ... |
14 November 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky was often considered the next Microsoft CEO, mostly because he’s one of the main executives that managed to get the company back on its feet after the Vista disaster.
Sinofsky stepped on the stage several times to hold speeches that, in the end, amazed the audience. But he’ll never forget... |
13 November 2012
14:01 GMT |
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News that Steven Sinofsky is leaving Microsoft came as a shock this morning and nobody could ever see this coming. Except for Steve Ballmer, that is, as it appears that Sinofsky and the Microsoft CEO did not get along very well. The whole industry has reacted in some way to this news and while some said that Microso... |
13 November 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky is no longer the Microsoft Windows boss and the official reasons released by the Redmond-based technology still leave room for interpretation. A Microsoft insider, however, told Fast Company that the growing tension between Sinofsky and CEO Steve Ballmer was at fault for the sudden departure of the W... |
13 November 2012
08:25 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky’s decision to quit Microsoft came as a big surprise, especially because he’s one of the main executives who helped the company get back on its feet after the Vista disaster. While the reasons behind his decision to leave the Redmond-based technology company are yet to be disclosed, Busine... |
13 November 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Just as we told you a couple of hours ago, Steven Sinofsky and Microsoft have decided to part ways, only a few weeks after the former Windows division boss took to the stage to unveil the new Windows 8. While we can’t say for sure that it’s all because the growing tension between Sinofsky and the other ch... |
13 November 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky’s decision to leave Microsoft is probably the most surprising news of the week, especially because the former Windows boss was on the stage a few weeks ago to introduce the brand new Windows 8. Microsoft and Sinofsky have decided to part ways “mutually,” as Microsoft said in a press ... |
13 November 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky, head of the Windows division and Redmondian since 1989, has decided to leave Microsoft, effective immediately. While the true reason for his decision is as yet unknown, Microsoft claims it all takes place mutually, so there are no hard feelings between Sinofsky and the other executives. Just as usu... |
13 November 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Microsoft rolled out both the Surface tablet and Windows 8 a few days ago and unsurprisingly, both of them had to face an avalanche of criticism coming from rival companies. Tim Cook said Surface is a “compromised” and “confusing” product, a statement that apparently annoyed Windows boss Steve... |
27 October 2012
08:05 GMT |
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Windows 8 is no longer a beta product, it’s a full-featured operating system that’ll go on sale all over the world in just a few hours.
The Windows 8 launch party in New York wasn’t at all breathtaking, although we must admit that all Microsoft executives who took to the stage revealed some very in... |
26 October 2012
02:23 GMT |
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Microsoft today released the Proxy statement for Microsoft’s fiscal year 2012, revealing that CEO Steve Ballmer received a bonus of $620,000 / €481,000.
While this represents only 91 percent of his eligible target award, the official statistics published by Microsoft point out that the company’s CEO... |
10 October 2012
02:41 GMT |
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The story accompanying the Windows 8 development process has catapulted Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division into the top position among MSDN bloggers. “Building Windows 8” is a MSDN blog, and this is obvious by just looking at the URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/. Sinofsky publis... |
19 September 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Aspects of the file management experience in Windows 8, which has been overhauled already, will continue to be tweaked even further.
Microsoft is gearing up to increase the number of early adopters who are granted access to the Windows 8 testing program, and the company stresses that the operating system is stil... |
6 September 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Windows 8 is still very much still in development and will continue to be for quite some time, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, stressed this week. Microsoft has started sharing more and more details with the public on its upcoming release of the Windows client. Per the communications ... |
3 September 2011
11:31 GMT |
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The first pre-release development milestones of Windows 8 will ship without some of the components that have been traditionally associated with Windows. Case in point: Windows Media Center.
According to Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, the first Build of Windows 8 that testers... |
3 September 2011
03:35 GMT |
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With Windows 8, Microsoft is dreaming big, tasking the OS with changing everything, a revolution to overshadow Windows 95’s role in making PCs ubiquitous. The company’s dreams for Windows 7 were incontestably more modest seeing how the software giant needed mainly to recover from a failed “Wow.&rdq... |
2 September 2011
08:34 GMT |
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Next generation Windows 8 features are being developed by approximately 35 feature teams within the Windows organization, revealed Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division. The Windows boss talked about the people working on the next version of the operating system, referring mainly to those har... |
18 August 2011
09:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has yet to confirm officially the Windows App Store for Windows 8, but the company provided the closest thing, a confirmation of the existence of the App Store team. Care to take a wild guess what they’re building?Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division provided a list with some ... |
18 August 2011
03:05 GMT |
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Windows 8 reimagines Windows - this has to be the new mantra of the next generation of the operating system, although Microsoft has yet to unveil the evolution of its Windows platform. Still, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division and his team are hard at work reimagining Windows from chips to... |
16 August 2011
12:31 GMT |
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June 2011 brought with it the first public preview of Windows 8, but also the promise that the conversation around the next major iteration of Windows would follow the “Engineering Windows 7” dialog model. At the start of this week Microsoft launched the “Building Windows 8” blog or “B8... |
16 August 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to broaden the pool of early adopters that have been testing Windows 8. A pre-release development milestone of Windows 8 will be made available to more testers than ever before in the next few months, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division confirmed at the start of this... |
16 August 2011
02:36 GMT |
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The fact that Windows 8 is planned for launch sometime within three years of the launch of Windows 7 doesn’t necessarily represent something new for the public. After all, even with Windows Vista’s release, Microsoft top executives, including Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer made it clear that a 5 t... |
9 June 2011
12:01 GMT |
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The recent details on Windows 8 that Microsoft shared with the world can be considered only the start of the conversation focused on the next major iteration of the Windows client. At D9 and Computex, the software giant unveiled the new NUI + GUI marriage for the Windows 8 flavor tailored to next generation form fac... |
6 June 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Unless you live under a rock you might have heard that Microsoft made public the first official preview of Windows 8, the next major iteration of the Windows client, and the successor of Windows 7. This happened at two events, one at the D9 and the other at Computex. The Redmond company also made available a video, ... |
2 June 2011
13:01 GMT |
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New details about the next iteration of the Windows client might be just around the corner, in fact, they could be shared with the world as soon as next week.Earlier this week, the presence of Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division was confirmed for the D9 Conference which takes place in Ranch... |
25 May 2011
10:36 GMT |
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The MIX11 day one keynote is now available on-demand for those that were unable to participate as well as for the users which missed it when it was streamed live.
Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President, Internet Explorer; Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Platform; and Steven Sinofsky,... |
13 April 2011
07:01 GMT |
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The first demonstration of Windows 8 is bound to have been a bittersweet moment for many. Those that remember the first sneak peek at Windows 7, undoubtedly also recall a similar feeling. Back in May 2008, Microsoft demoed the new multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7, giving a taste of the platform’s Natural ... |
7 January 2011
10:56 GMT |
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