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Microsoft's Longtime Windows Boss Terry Myerson To Leave the Company Amid a Huge Executive Reorganization (businessinsider.com)
Terry Myerson, Microsoft's executive vice president of Windows and a long-time leader at Microsoft, is leaving the company, the company said today. The news comes as part of a big reshuffling of the company's executive leadership. From a report: "His strong contributions to Microsoft over 21 years from leading Exchange to leading Windows 10 leave a real legacy. I want to thank Terry for his leadership on my team and across Microsoft," wrote Nadella in an e-mail to employees announcing the changes. As part of the reorganization, Rajesh Jha, the executive VP of Microsoft Office products, will be expanding his responsibilities to encompass Myerson's role when he leaves in "the coming months." Jha will become the leader of a group called "Experiences & Devices," bringing Windows and Office under a single banner. "The purpose of this team is to instill a unifying product ethos across our end-user experiences and devices," writes Nadella. "Computing experiences are evolving to include multiple senses and are no longer bound to one device at a time but increasingly spanning many as we move from home to work and on the go."
I have a hard time seeing that. They fucked office good and hard about a decade back when they introduced that god damned ribbon interface. It's only stubbornness and institutional inertia that allows it to still be on there.
For mouse users, it increases the distance you have to drag the mouse in order to get options. For those that use hotkeys it makes it far, far harder to locate things to find the hotkey for. It's a really great example of how not to create a working interface.
The worst thing though is that it caught on with other developers. So, they didn't just ruin their products, by the transitive property, they've now ruined other perfectly serviceable software.
I don't know about Microsoft but around here when one area gets an Indian manager suddenly all the people reporting to him are Indian and all the former non-Indian people are shuffled off to other departments. Just something I've observed time and time again where I work.
>However, the disdain for Windows 10 isn't because people dislike it. Rather they disliked the various methods that MS employed to force Windows 10 onto people.
I Disagree. I dislike the way they've split system settings between two different sets of menus, one very similar to the older Win7 settings and a new set in a new set of windows with new names and that "flat" look. The older, more useful settings are sometimes only accessible through the newer windows, which makes no sense and requires extra clicks to get where I want.
This wouldn't be so bad if the search system worked, but Win10's Start menu search is garbage. Sometimes it feels like you have to type the full, exact name of what you want when previously the first half a word would bring up the desired option. Sometimes you can type the exact name of a program and Win10 search can't find it.
Speaking of the Start Menu, why has MS insisted on putting an enormous amount of crap into it? Some of that stuff is removable, but many of the Windows features are locked in there and cannot be removed. In addition to that the insistence on an alphabetised layout with large breaks between sections just takes up unneccesary space, unlike the old system which could arrange them but had no gaps.
So yes, their forcing Win10 on people is objectionable, but Win10 itself isn't perfect either. And before someone says "get this third party extension which fixes it", that simply reinforces the fact that they broke something which was perfectly fine to the point that there are now third party extensions which return it to the way it was.
Yep, that's the reason I commented....this is not uncommon to see happen.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I guess everyone wants their own people working for them. When White people do it it's called racist (and rightfully so), but when Indians do it no one seems to care.
He's not wrong. It happens at a lot of companies when an Indian takes over the top spot.