As you all know Microsoft President Steven Sinofsky has left Microsoft, effective immediately -- just days after launching his babies, Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface. And the new head of Windows is Julie Larson-Green.
Like Sinofsky before her, Larson-Green is a career Microsoftie. She started at the company in 1993 and was "discovered" when she gave a talk about Microsoft compilers. Her first role at the company involved working on developer tools, but she soon joined the Internet Explorer team.
It was her work with Microsoft Office that has had the most impact, though. Larson-Green started with Office in 1997, eventually leading the redesign for the 2007 edition. She fully backed the "ribbon" interface in that release, which introduced a string of icons across the top of the screen. Before her promotion to Windows lead, she was corporate vice president of program management for Windows.
Now she's the boss, but what will that mean for the future of Windows? In the short term, not much: Windows 8 launched just two weeks ago, and Microsoft will be focused more on marketing than development for a while.
Via: Mary Jo Foley