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Steven Sinofsky: Windows division head leaves Microsoft
Authored by: Steve Martin on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 06:54 AM EST

I do know that a few less knowledgeable people are actually buying systems for home use.

It doesn't mean that they're keeping them.

I got an email from my (75-year-old) mother not long ago. Her old Vista computer had died (dead hard drive), and rather than invest in getting it repaired, she went ahead and replaced the PC. Her email was dripping with frustration; according to her, "nothing" worked like it used to, and none of her existing apps would work. Turned out she had bought a Windows 8 machine.

She promptly returned that machine and bought a Windows 7 machine. (Imagine a 75-year-old great- grandmother standing in the return line at Walmart demanding her money back, and actually getting it!)

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Steven Sinofsky: Windows division head leaves Microsoft
Authored by: odysseus on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 11:45 AM EST
No, it's not that Win8 has failed, it's far too early to tell that or for heads
to roll as a result. The problem is that Sinofsky is Old Skool Microsoft,
fiercely competing internally rather than co-operating, reinforcing the old silo
mentality, Windows versus Server versus Office versus XBOX versus... He was a
highly effective delivery manager, just look how he turned the Windows division
around after teh Vista disaster to get Win7 and Win8 out the door in such short
order, but for MS to survive even Ballmer recognises that all the products need
to integrate better, and Sinofsky is not the man to deliver that. At the end of
one product cycle and at the start of the next is the best time to change
managers.

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