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Raikes To Leave Microsoft
News The head of Microsoft's Business Division, Jeff Raikes, is to step down. Raikes, 49, said he plans to step down in September, Microsoft said in a statement on Thursday. Given the success of our business and the depth of leadership we have in place...
[January 11, 2008, 10:58]
Peering Into Office 12
News There are things that are still hard as well as things that have gotten harder," Microsoft group vice-president Jeff Raikes said in an interview. The vision will always continue to expand," Raikes said.
[May 19, 2005, 13:35]
Microsoft Looks To Decipher Your Scribblings
News There's a big debate about it," said Jeff Raikes, Microsoft group vice president. By maintaining central control of the database, Raikes said Microsoft is able to judge whether a particular addition actually improves the accuracy of the handwriting...
[September 26, 2002, 14:31]
Office System Touts Time Benefits
News But Jeff Raikes, vice president of Microsoft's Productivity and Business Services group, insists that XML "plumbing" is beside the point -- the real news is that the new Office will buy harried workers a few more minutes in their day.
[October 27, 2003, 11:25]
Microsoft Launches Office Communications Server
News At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, chairman Bill Gates and Business Division president Jeff Raikes formally launched several products that are key to Microsoft's strategy of offering "unified communications" for businesses — that is...
[October 17, 2007, 9:19]
Microsoft Readies VoIP Software Beta
News The announcement will be made by Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's Business Division, during a keynote address Wednesday morning at the VoiceCon trade show in Orlando, Florida. Raikes said during a recent interview that he believes a software...
[March 7, 2007, 7:27]
Novell-Microsoft Antitrust Court Clash Continues
News In his decision allowing one of the two Microsoft claims to proceed, Motz cited a now infamous 1997 email from Office unit head Jeff Raikes to investor Warren Buffet, in which Raikes said applications such as Word and Excel can serve as a "moat...
[June 14, 2005, 9:55]
Tablet PC Speaks In Tongues, But Not All
News I believe you can type faster than you can ink," Microsoft group vice president Jeff Raikes said in an interview. As for the languages that are not included, Raikes said it's nothing personal. The recognition takes years to develop in a given...
[September 25, 2002, 8:03]
Microsoft 'on Brink Of Acquiring Tellme'
News In an interview earlier this month, Microsoft business division president Jeff Raikes talked up the role mobile devices will play, as well as the potential for merging voice and data, but declined to comment specifically on speculation that the...
[March 13, 2007, 8:10]
Microsoft Aims To 'reinvent' Itself
News It will consist of a number of Executive Committee stalwarts, including Gates and Ballmer, as well as Bob Herbold, Microsoft's chief operating officer; Paul Maritz, now head of the Developer group; Jim Allchin, now head of the Business and...
[March 30, 1999, 9:03]
Microsoft Gets With The Groove
News Microsoft intends to keep the Groove facility and may expand its operations in the area, said Jeff Raikes, group vice-president of Microsoft's Information Worker group. Ozzie, Raikes and other Microsoft executives announced the acquisition to...
[March 11, 2005, 8:00]
Microsoft Rings In Small-business Phone System
News Earlier this month, Business Division president Jeff Raikes offered more details on Microsoft's plans to tackle the corporate telephony market. Jeff Smith, a senior product manager at Microsoft, said the new phones are designed to be simple enough...
[March 20, 2007, 9:45]
Microsoft's Tellme Deal May Boost Live Efforts
News The fact that Tellme has a different business model was part of its allure, said Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes. One of the many benefits that we're excited about with our acquisition of Tellme is that they bring with them a...
[March 22, 2007, 9:08]
Microsoft Gets Into The Groupware Groove
News And the majority of the products in that realm are in [group vice-president] Jeff Raikes' Information Worker group. Jeff [Raikes] and Jim [Allchin] are two of the group vice-presidents who have a lot of people reporting to them.
[March 14, 2005, 10:50]
Mass Office Upgrades 'unlikely'
News Office System is very important to Microsoft," said Jeff Raikes, Microsoft's vice president in charge of Office and other applications. Raikes said he recognises that by broadening Office, the company has also created a more difficult sales process.
[October 21, 2003, 10:00]
Microsoft Loses Key Office Exec
News Eschbach, recruited by Office chief Jeff Raikes from Adobe Systems a year ago to help spur the expansion of Microsoft Office, plans to leave on 1 December. Microsoft executive Joe Eschbach plans to leave the company after just a year on the job.
[November 21, 2003, 9:40]
Microsoft To Buy Net Collaboration Firm
News Anoop Gupta will head the new division and report to Jeff Raikes, Microsoft's group vice president of productivity and business services. Microsoft on Tuesday announced the pending acquisition of PlaceWare, a provider of Web-based collaboration...
[January 22, 2003, 10:33]
Office 2007 Preview Hits The Web
News Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes said in an interview on Friday that Office 2007 remains on track to be shipped to large corporate customers this year. Microsoft wants people to try out the next Office — without the hassle of...
[June 27, 2006, 17:10]
Tablet PCs Starting To Take Off
News The announcement is likely to come during a Tuesday morning keynote by Jeff Raikes, Microsoft's group vice president for productivity and business services. Fujitsu will unveil a prototype of a tablet PC next week, sources close to the company said...
[June 21, 2002, 14:35]
Microsoft Splits Office Duties
News The decision to split his duties was announced internally earlier on Wednesday by Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes. With Steven Sinofsky moving to head Windows development, Microsoft has said it will split its Office development in...
[June 2, 2006, 10:05]
