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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Microsoft has learned of a mistake in the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font ... we failed to identify, prior to the release, the presence of two swastikas within the font. We apologize for this and for any offense caused.
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BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time.
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With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.
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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've had no demand from our customers for this feature.
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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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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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While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
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No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.
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It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.
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I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.
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I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.