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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."
Sounds like a move to make all MS leadership Indian as much as anything else....?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
>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.