November 14th 12, 09:45 PM
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Head of Micro$haft's Windoze unit (Steven Sinofsky) kicked outon his ass because Windoze 8 sucks
98 Guy wrote:
Couldn't happen to a nicer company, with a nicer product, from a bunch
of nicer criminals.
Windoze 8 is a flop, and Sinofsky's head is the first to roll.
Microsoft: If it works, it's not complicated enough.
Long live Windows 98!
JFYI: Definitely a 'Typo'.
It is to read:
"Long live Windows Vista, all Versions."
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Picture of "chrome dome" Steven Sinofsky:
http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources...=CBRE8AC0A4X00
(Macro$haft is replacing Sinofsky with a couple of women.
I'm sure that's going to work out well...)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8AC02Z20121113
The executive most widely tipped to be the next chief executive of
Microsoft Corp has left the world's largest software maker barely two
weeks after launching the flagship Windows 8, as CEO Steve Ballmer moved
to tighten his grip on the company.
The exit of 23-year veteran Steven Sinofsky, head of Microsoft's Windows
unit, is the latest - and most prominent - in a line of high-profile
departures from the Redmond, Washington-based company, which is
struggling to keep pace with Apple Inc and Google Inc in mobile
computing.
It comes hard on the heels of Sinofsky unveiling the most radical revamp
of Windows since 1995, designed to catapult Microsoft back into the
forefront of Internet-based, touch-screen technology and reinvigorate a
stock price that has been static for the past decade.
The move was unexpected and neither Microsoft nor Sinofsky gave an
explanation, although an executive at the company, who asked not to be
named, said the decision was "mutual" and said he was not expecting
Sinofsky to take a job at another company soon.
"This is shocking news. This is very surprising," said Brendan Barnicle,
an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities. "Like a lot of people, I thought
Sinofsky was in line to potentially be Ballmer's successor."
Sinofsky, 47, joined Microsoft in 1989 and made his mark as Bill Gates'
technical assistant. He grew into an uncompromising leader whose
ruthless style of cutting layers of management and formalizing the
process of software development gave rise to the term "Sinofskyization"
in the company.
He wielded immense power as head of the Windows unit, the traditional
center of Microsoft's business, but was not known for working well with
other executives.
One former Microsoft staffer who worked with Sinofsky and other
executives said his relentlessly aggressive style exasperated other
leaders and may have alienated too many people, including his mentor
Gates.
"He had no one left to fight for him," said the staffer, who asked not
to be named. "Gates gave him cover, so he must have eventually caved."
LEADERSHIP STYLE
Ballmer, 56, shows no sign of leaving after almost 13 years in the job,
despite almost constant criticism. He has now replaced all the leaders
of Microsoft's five main operating units in the past four years.
He told employees in a memo on Monday simply that: "Steven Sinofsky has
decided to leave the company."
In a later media statement, he added that it was "imperative that we
continue to drive alignment across all Microsoft teams, and have more
integrated and rapid development cycles for our offerings".
That could be interpreted as disappointment in Sinofsky's ability, or
willingness, to work with other units.
"Windows has to be much more thoroughly integrated with Xbox, with other
parts of the company," said Barnicle. "I don't know that was something
Steven was as excited about as focusing on Windows."
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