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Microsoft Aligns Itself For A Hosted Future
News The reorganisation has been in planning stages since August, when Microsoft hired Kevin Turner, a former Wal-Mart Stores executive, to take over as chief operating officer, according to sources. At the time, Microsoft said that Johnson, who was...
[September 21, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft COO: Standing Firm On Vista
News In spite of all the bad press Windows Vista has had to endure, Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner stands firm on his belief that the operating system is surging ahead and doing better than its predecessor.
[May 27, 2008, 11:26]
Microsoft To Develop Virtualisation Management Tools
News Microsoft is to augment its virtualisation platform to enable IT managers to manage other vendor environments, according to Microsoft chief operations officer Kevin Turner. Speaking at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover on Tuesday, Turner said...
[March 4, 2008, 16:26]
Microsoft To Partners: Change Or Become Obsolete
News Aiming to rally its partners around the reality of hosted software, Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner told them it was a matter of financial life and death. We have to change faster internally than the world is changing externally or...
[July 11, 2007, 8:55]
The Only Reason?
Talkback “Security is one of the top reasons customers are moving to Windows Vista” Kevin Turner. What Mr Turner won’t admit is that many people are sticking with XP because they believe it performs better overall.
[May 27, 2008, 18:35]
Reshaping Microsoft For The Future
News Kevin Turner has come a long way from the checkout line at Wal-Mart. Turner joined Microsoft nearly a year ago as the company's chief operating officer. Last week, Turner made his first major speech to more than 7,000 of Microsoft's industry...
[July 25, 2006, 13:55]
Microsoft Pushes Seamless Communications
News At the CeBIT trade show in Hanover on Tuesday, Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner said Microsoft would aim to provide applications that enable combined voice, text and video communications.
[March 5, 2008, 17:10]
HP And Microsoft Team Up On Enterprise Software
News The deal is to be unveiled by Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, and Ann Livermore, an executive vice president at HP, at an afternoon event. HP and Microsoft are expected to announce a new partnership in enterprise software at a...
[December 13, 2006, 8:16]
Microsoft Exec: Tough Times Play To Our Strengths
News Chief operating officer Kevin Turner sent an email to Microsoft's salesforce on Wednesday, highlighting a dozen or so things the company can do to help customers save money. With a tough economic climate forcing cutbacks in IT spending, Microsoft...
[October 13, 2008, 13:29]
Microsoft Forks Out £50m To Extend Novell Linux Pact
News The collaboration between Microsoft and Novell has been built on our desire to meet our customers' real-life IT requirements as well as give our partners greater breadth in their solution offerings," said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at...
[August 20, 2008, 16:32]
Ballmer: Software Is Becoming A Service
News Earlier this month, Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, told a meeting of the company's business partners that Microsoft is "shifting from being a product-centric company to a services and solutions company".
[July 28, 2006, 10:30]
Vista And Office Push Up Microsoft Sales
News This quarter marked the consumer launches of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and we are delighted with the positive customer response these products have received," chief operating officer Kevin Turner said in a statement.
[April 27, 2007, 9:43]
Just How Successful Is The MS/Novell Pact?
Blog It's just a bit ironic that Microsoft's chief operating officer Kevin Turner is a former vice president of Walmart. I'm getting cold feet about Microsoft's latest so-called Linux victory. The software giant said on Monday that Walmart, the...
[January 25, 2007, 17:04]
Microsoft Prepares To Take Office Online
News At its partner conference in July, chief operating officer Kevin Turner said the product has the potential to be one of the company's top three or four most-used products. In another clear sign that Microsoft sees the threat posed by its...
[October 1, 2007, 8:32]
Microsoft Keeps Quiet On Vista Figures
News Kevin Turner told financial analysts on Thursday that "60 million units have been sold of Windows Vista into the marketplace". Turner's figures mean that 20 million copies of Vista have been sold, on a wholesale basis at least, over the last two...
[July 30, 2007, 16:38]
Microsoft Warns Google Off Enterprise Search
News Enterprise search is our business, it's our house and Google is not going to take that business," Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, told a conference of more than 7,000 business partners on Thursday.
[July 14, 2006, 9:50]
Microsoft And HP Step Up Collaboration
News Through our collaboration with HP, our more than 20,000 joint customers will have access to an expanded set of solutions and services to tackle their most pressing business problems," Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, said in a...
[December 14, 2006, 13:20]
Microsoft Unconcerned Over Vista SP1 Incompatibility
News Speaking at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover on Tuesday, Microsoft's third-in-command, Kevin Turner, told ZDNet.co.uk that the software giant was not concerned by the problems that Service Pack 1 (SP1) has encountered with some third-party programs.
[March 4, 2008, 14:03]
The Best Of CeBIT 2008: Day One
News Microsoft's chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, was also around to discuss the the software maker's virtualisation push, with its upcoming Hyper-V technology, and shed some more light on the first service pack for Vista.
[March 5, 2008, 12:45]
ZDNet News Survey: BT Plan Gets Thumbs Down
News Martin Turner, UK MD of CompuServe Kevin Piper, head of communications and multimedia marketing at BT Below are the comments of various members of the Internet community as well as a few readers of the News channel.
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