On the heels of a week of news of a number of Microsoft executive departures and reshufflings, another has come to light. Rob Short, Corporate Vice President for Windows Core, has resigned from the company. While Short’s departure won’t make anywhere near the headlines that Microsoft President Jeff Raikes’ planned September 2008 parting has, Short’s leaving is still big news for anyone with Windows interests.
Short was a key member of Microsoft’s Core Operating System Division (COSD) team. COSD is charged with “the design, development and testing of the core components of the Microsoft Windows operating system: the operating system core, virtual machine technology, input/output subsystems and the core device drivers,” according to Short’s (still-existent) bio on Microsoft’s corporate Web site.
[Via ZDNet]
News source: WinBeta
Last edited by Slimy on 14 Jan 2008 - 21:58
LOL
it's not the same of Windows Vista? At least Office uses an Orb like Vista.
LOL
it's not the same of Windows Vista? At least Office uses an Orb like Vista.
Nope, not the same; the Office UI person did move to Windows development until after Windows Vista had shipped.
LOL
it's not the same of Windows Vista? At least Office uses an Orb like Vista.
Nope, not the same; the Office UI person did move to Windows development until after Windows Vista had shipped.
I've think was the same because the VS of Office'07 and Windows Vista are similar.
Thanks for the info!
i wonder if these people who are leaving are why windows went down hill lately
gets some new blood in there clean it up
Last edited by lbmouse on 14 Jan 2008 - 21:55
Alot are heading back to IBM - Symphony, their new free office suite; I doubt that would have been a management decision; it would have been one made by someone at the bottom, and management willing to take ideas from those in the trenches and pushing them forward.
I look at Apple, and their willingness to push forward the idea to allowing Engineers to get up and speak for the organisations products, to control the products direction with alot of freedom and autonomy from upper management.
Microsoft unfortunately doesn't allow that; the fact that Vista is so technologically deficient it is a by-product of manage deciding the direction instead of programmers/those who are technologically knowledgeable.
Well at least that explains where Apple's ideas are coming from.
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