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In 2009, Microsoft had 5 Presidents- Sinofsky, Stephen Elop, Robbie Bach, Qi Lu and Bob Muglia. All but Qi Lu are now gone. Not a good sign of Ballmer's abilit
by randomfool 14y ago
In 2009, Microsoft had 5 Presidents- Sinofsky, Stephen Elop, Robbie Bach, Qi Lu and Bob Muglia. All but Qi Lu are now gone.
Not a good sign of Ballmer's ability to choose leaders.
- abhimishra 14y agoAnd of course, we can expect that Ballmer will still be around...
- w1ntermute 14y agoHere's Ballmer's letter about Sinofsky's departure: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3638174/steve-ballmers-letter-to-team-on-sinofsky-departure http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3638174/steve-ballmers-le... Edit: Sources inside Microsoft say a clash of personalities led to Sinofsky's departure: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3638340/microsoft-steven-sinofsky-departure-personality/in/3402655 http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3638340/microsoft-steven-... Steven Sinofsky's letter to Microsoft employees explaining his departure: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3638770/steven-sinofskys-letter-employees/in/3402655 http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3638770/steven-sinofskys-...
- _delirium 14y agoI don't have strong opinions on any of this, but that letter really reads weirdly. It has an almost-no-transition set of segues between "congrats for all the work you've done recently", "Sinofsky is leaving", and "so here is who's in charge now", with a conspicuous lack of explanation or connection between those points.
- bitwize 14y agoWelcome to corporate damage control 101. A former co-worker of mine used to occasionally bring up the first company email he received: "Effective immediately, so-and-so (not my coworker, someone from a different department) is no longer employed at <company name>. There will be no further comment on this matter."
- fieldforceapp 14y agoThanks for pointing us to that link. I was surprised & pleased to learn that two women were promoted as a result of Sinofsky's departure: Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller. Good for them, and all of us who enjoy seeing a little more gender balance. Any MSFT'ers here who can comment on their backgrounds?
- DufusM 14y agoJulie Larson-Green brought the Ribbon interface to Office and then to other parts of Windows. Her ability to bring change to something as stable as the Office UI and the Windows Explorer UI was seen as a good thing.
- moe 14y agoAnyone else had to pause when reading that line in the letter? Julie has been a stalwart leader of building compelling “experiences” from her time on Internet Explorer
- uptown 14y agoWell, one definition of "compelling" is "demanding attention". Any web developer that's had to build for Internet Explorer will likely say that's a fairly accurate description.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoIE 3 and 4 were very well received in their own time. Its only IE 6 that overstayed its welcome.
- zanny 14y agoAnd 7 and 8. 9 and 10 are still strutting around non-standard implementations of half of everything require custom code work-arounds. They still don't have full html5 / css3 support either.
- ygra 14y agoHow do you fully support a mostly still-moving spec? Also what large points are missing now in IE 10 except for WebGL?
- dlitz 14y agoWhy do you only ask about "large points"? If you implement 'most of CSS, except for minute details', then you haven't implemented CSS, and web developers suffer because they have to add UA-specific hacks for your implementation.
- spion 14y agoTo answer the first question: The first step would probably be releasing more often than once every 1.5 years.
- dthunt 14y agoThere were a lot of good choices out there around the W7 timeframe. I can't really imagine the decision-making criteria, but I suspect it was a tough choice. Windows is too big of an organization to steer by force of will. Hopefully the new head will be somewhat less contentious and more willing to defer to her deputies (supposition), but be similarly demanding in accountability.