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Microsoft Server and Tools Head Muglia To Step Down
snydeq writes "Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, president of the company's server and tools business, will step down from his position later this year, according to a Steve Ballmer memo issued Monday to company employees. Muglia has been with Microsoft for 23 years, leading development efforts in Microsoft Office, Windows NT and online services businesses. More recently, Muglia shepherded Microsoft's entry into cloud computing, guiding the rollout of the company's Azure platform. Muglia's departure follows that of Ray Ozzie, whose exit was made all the more notable by a memo warning Microsoft to start thinking beyond the PC."
If he's responsible for the "cloud" moniker, good riddance.
"And don't let the chair hit you in the butt on the way out!" - Ballmer
I believe his full name is Tim "Tools Head" Muglia.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
And thus, with the exit of half a dozen of the highest level Microsoft department heads, there is nobody at MS that can take over Ballmer's seat as CEO if the board of directors decides to fire him. He's made it much harder to fire him now.
Running it through Babel Fish's "Slashdot to English" translation, I get this:
Slashdot: "Microsoft Server and Tools Head Muglia To Step Down"
English: "Bob Muglia, Head of Microsoft's Server and Tools Division, Is Going To Step Down"
Then, if you run it through a "Corporate-Speak" filter, you get this:
Plain English: "Steve Ballmer Fired Bob Muglia"
I believe his full name is Tim "Tools Head" Muglia.
10,000 years ago, when I was still in High School, we had pot heads, crack heads, but no tools heads. We just called them all collectively "heads."
"Ya see that guy over there? He does 'tools.' If you need some 'tools', go to the 'tools head'."
"Wanna do some 'tools'?"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Firmly established by Google.
Hardly. The cloud concept and name had been around long before Google came on the scene. Google also did what Microsoft often do and bought themselves into the game when they purchased the company Upstartle for the word processor and technology from 2Web Technologies for the spreadsheet.
Now I don't have any problems doing this, and I think they did a good job integrating the two systems together. But don't give them the credit for this revolution.
Might could be, but often time MS bloats its products with features that you don't need, then expects you to pay for them in terms of cost and performance.
He was in charge of tools. Heh Heh.
It will be interesting to see what your city gov. employees do when they need to print a contract or something.
They can always use the free Office viewer applications made by Microsoft. Still, I can't see user satisfaction being particularly high going with a cloud solution that doesn't offer much in the way of advanced features. This is obviously a decision made by people who don't actually use Office apps much.
Surely the better solution would be to go with OpenOffice. Or you could still use Microsoft Office, but just don't upgrade to every version that comes out. At my company, we went from Office 97 to 2003 to 2010. Going from 97 to 2003, people hardly noticed the difference!
Who fights for the users? (I know, I know... RMS)
Do you see what I did there?
Now I don't have any problems doing this
Oops. I meant I have no problems with Google doing this. Obviously I didn't make Google Docs myself!
I guess if you have an opinion at M$ that is not the same as them, you can't work there?