Steven Sinofsky
Steven Sinofsky
Steven Jay Sinofsky is a former President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 until his departure on November 13, 2012. He was responsible for the development and marketing of Windows, Internet Explorer as well as online services such as Outlook.com and SkyDrive. Sinofsky is currently a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he serves on boards of investments...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.
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My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
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Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.
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We are moving into the next wave of the Web where software and services are delivered together. Providing productivity applications along with service over the Internet is a new opportunity for industry partners.
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The Portal Server enables you to take those team sites, and those collaborative elements of the work, and bring them to life for the entire enterprise, which will make it possible for the broadest range of users to take advantage of the collaborative framework. And, of course, once you have that, you need to have great search capability.
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If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.
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When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
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The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
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A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
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The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.
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