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Microsoft Windows Chief Jumps Ship For Juniper
News Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's online and Windows chief and a key figure in the company's failed Yahoo takeover effort, is leaving the company to become chief executive at Juniper Networks, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday.
[July 24, 2008, 8:27]
Microsoft Reshuffles Windows Marketing Unit
News Windows development remains under Steven Sinofsky, with both Sinofsky and Veghte reporting to Kevin Johnson, who leads the unit that oversees both Windows and Windows Live. Brad Goldberg, who has been general manager of product management for...
[February 28, 2007, 8:57]
Microsoft Aligns Itself For A Hosted Future
News Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin will be co-presidents of the Platform Products and Services division, which will comprise Windows Client, Server and Tools and the MSN division. At the time, Microsoft said that Johnson, who was serving as sales chief...
[September 21, 2005, 9:20]
Keeping Microsoft Live And Kicking
News As if chasing Google wasn't a big enough challenge, Microsoft executive Kevin Johnson also has to get the Windows unit back on track in his spare time. Johnson: Yeah, there's really three business groups that I have accountability for: the Windows...
[May 19, 2006, 13:00]
Microsoft Closes Aquantive Deal
News Yusuf Mehdi, who had been the company's chief advertising strategist, will shift to a new role, heading strategic partnerships, according to an internal memo sent on Monday morning by Platforms & Services Division president Kevin Johnson.
[August 14, 2007, 8:53]
Gates And Ballmer Get Pay Rises
News Jeff Raikes, who heads the unit that includes Microsoft Office, received $1.15m in salary and bonus in fiscal 2005, while former sales chief Kevin Johnson received $1.05m in salary and bonus. Last week, as part of a massive reorganisation, Johnson...
[September 29, 2005, 9:15]
Ballmer: Software Is Becoming A Service
News Kevin Johnson, co-president of the company's platform unit, said the product will ship when it is ready, but did not offer a firm date. Johnson said there was no data that suggested the company can't wrap up development in time for a launch to...
[July 28, 2006, 10:30]
Ballmer Memo On Where Microsoft Is Headed
Blog Full text of a memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out this message to the rank and file yesterday, after the announcement that Windows and online chief Kevin Johnson was leaving. We are also announcing that Kevin Johnson will leave the company.
[July 25, 2008, 12:41]
Microsoft Rejigs Windows Division
News Bill Veghte, who had been the senior vice president in charge of that unit, is taking up a new role as head of North American sales, reporting to overall sales chief Kevin Johnson. Microsoft on Monday confirmed plans to reshuffle its Windows unit...
[December 16, 2003, 9:00]
Vista Pricing Leaks Out
News We don't expect significant changes in our pricing strategy," Windows unit head Kevin Johnson said at a July meeting with financial analysts. Microsoft on Monday briefly posted pricing for Windows Vista on its Canadian Web site, giving an eye into...
[August 29, 2006, 8:45]
Microsoft UK Head: We've Grown Up
News For the interview process in this job I saw Steve Ballmer and Kevin Johnson, and my mentor is a senior VP. The last few weeks have been pretty rough for Microsoft. After being knocked around by the European Commission and fined around €497.2m for...
[April 8, 2004, 15:10]
Microsoft Merges Corporate Communications Divisions
News Finally, Brent Callinicos will become chief financial officer for the Platforms and Services division, reporting to Kevin Johnson. Microsoft said on Monday that it is combining its Exchange email server unit with the group that handles corporate...
[January 31, 2006, 9:50]
Happy Birthday (dear) Vista
Blog STOP PRESS: just as I post this I noticed that Reuters is running an interview with Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platform and services group on this very subject. Those among us who harbour an obsession for dates and calendars may have...
[November 2, 2007, 8:42]
Sizing Up Microsoft's Aquantive Deal
News The online advertising market is $40bn globally now and is expected to grow at least 20 percent each year for the next few years, said Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's platform and services unit head. The company Microsoft is acquiring for its highest...
[May 21, 2007, 9:43]
Microsoft Plans Single Download For Windows Live
News During his presentation to financial analysts on Thursday, Kevin Johnson said the company would begin beta testing the product this summer. Johnson described it as a single download that will let users connect to multiple Live-branded hosted...
[July 30, 2007, 12:11]
XP Uptake 'too Slow' - Microsoft
News In the area of deployment, I don't think that's met my expectations," Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's group vice president for worldwide sales and marketing, said in a recent interview. In the enterprise, it is not a situation where customers don't have...
[April 13, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft Moves Key Security Into Windows Unit
News As part of that shift, which reordered operations into three units, Microsoft named its sales chief, Kevin Johnson, to head a new unit combining Windows and Windows Live. In March, Microsoft moved Office executive Steven Sinofsky to the Windows...
[October 13, 2006, 8:50]
Gates Outlines Goals For Microsoft's Ad Business
News Kevin Johnson, head of Microsoft's Windows and advertising businesses, sent an email to conference attendees on Monday reassuring them that the software giant is in the ad game for the long haul. Some of you have asked if we remain as committed...
[May 9, 2007, 10:48]
Linux: The Forking Fight-back
News In a January interview with BusinessWeek, Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's group vice-president for worldwide sales, marketing and services, gave a familiar assessment of Linux: "It has the potential to fragment like Unix did," he said.
[February 4, 2005, 16:10]
Disaster Recovery Planning Must Take All Angles Into Account
News Johnson Graduate School at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, and an eWEEK Corporate Partner. said Kevin Baradet, network systems director at the S.C. "If your data's off-site, halfway across the country, it's safe.
[September 14, 2001, 12:02]
