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Europe leads Microsoft push to mobilise business apps
News Europe will take off fastest" said Peter Wissinger, marketing manager for Microsoft's mobile devices division. Microsoft launched its Mobile Workplace programme in Europe at its IT Forum conference for IT managers in Copenhagen on Thursday.
[November 22, 2002, 11:08]
Business unit head to leave Microsoft
News Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business software division, said the company did both an internal and external search and "went through literally dozens of candidates" before selecting Nadella. Doug Burgum, the executive behind Microsoft's...
[September 13, 2006, 9:10]
Microsoft readies pay-as-you-go business web apps
News Microsoft Online Services is a key component of the software-plus-services initiative, and we're seeing customers, partners and even competitors embrace this flexible approach to the cloud," Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business...
[July 9, 2008, 11:12]
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. Already looking to take over the corporate telephone system, Microsoft announced on Monday its plans to...
[March 20, 2007, 9:45]
Microsoft Webcast: How Microsoft IT Improved Project Portfolio Selection to Drive Business Value (Level 100)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn about the experiences in developing and rolling out a new strategic planning and portfolio management process and tool built on Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 across the Microsoft Human...
[September 1, 2007, 1:00]
Raikes to leave Microsoft
News The head of Microsoft's Business Division, Jeff Raikes, is to step down. Given the success of our business and the depth of leadership we have in place today, the time is right for me to leave the MBD [Microsoft Business Division] business in the...
[January 11, 2008, 10:58]
Microsoft uses BS to target small firms
News Microsoft recently reassigned its top sales executive to drive expansion of its small and midsize business applications unit and hopes to eventually make its Business Solutions division a $10bn business.
[March 31, 2003, 9:23]
Sinofsky named as Windows division president
News Sinofsky will become division president, assuming both business and technical responsibility for Microsoft's flagship operating system, according to Microsoft. In addition, Microsoft said that Windows division chief financial officer Tami Reller...
[July 9, 2009, 10:09]
Microsoft's Mac manager steps aside
News Microsoft said on Friday that it has transferred the head of its Macintosh business unit to another division, leaving open the question of who will lead the company's Mac efforts. In the meantime, the unit will be led by the three executives who...
[October 14, 2002, 9:00]
Microsoft seals deal for Navision
News Navision will become part of Microsoft's Business Solutions division, and its corporate headquarters in Vedbaek, Denmark, will become the centre of development and operations for Microsoft Business Solutions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
[May 7, 2002, 16:29]
Microsoft's Great Plains buy changes competitive landscape
News Microsoft group vice president, Jeff Raikes and senior vice president of business applications David Vaskevitch will lead the Productivity and Business Services Group, which will include a Great Plains division.
[December 22, 2000, 11:10]
Casino Gaming Enterprise Automates Business Processes and Reduces Costs
White Papers Leech Lake Gaming Division, a business entity of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, operates three casinos and employs more than 1,300 people. And with the system stationed at the off-site gaming division office, casino managers had limited access to...
[September 6, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft Division Connects Systems and Virtualizes Servers to Improve Productivity
White Papers The Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft lacked real-time visibility into its supply chain. The division implemented Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 to improve supply-chain management, and it deployed BizTalk Server 2009 and Hyper-V to...
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
Microsoft TechFest video points to utopian future
News On Friday, Microsoft Business Division president Stephen Elop showed the video in a speech at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, as part of the software maker's internal science fair.
[March 2, 2009, 13:56]
Microsoft to snap up MobiComp
News MobiComp, which is based in Braga, Portugal, will become part of Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business division. The acquisition will be used to bolster a number of services on the Windows Mobile smartphone platform, as well as the Windows...
[June 27, 2008, 8:58]
Microsoft realigns software developer units
News The new division will become part of Microsoft's Platforms Group, which includes the Windows operating system and Microsoft's e-business software. Microsoft announced a corporate restructuring on Tuesday that coalesces several units related to...
[October 17, 2001, 11:30]
Microsoft aligns itself for a hosted future
News Jeff Raikes will head up the company's Business division, which will house Microsoft's Information Worker group (which includes its Office product line), and its Business Solutions packaged applications group.
[September 21, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft Office chief on Google, costs and the cloud
News But in an interview with ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, the head of Microsoft's Business Division says there is still plenty of life in the full version. A: You know, when you boil it all down, everything we do essentially in the division...
[July 15, 2009, 14:54]
SAP sets up showdown with Microsoft
News Leo Apotheker, who was named interim head of SAP's North America division last month, is assessing the unit and will determine a course of action next month, he told CNET News.com from SAP's e-business conference in Orlando, Florida.
[June 7, 2002, 15:03]
Microsoft to buy Net collaboration firm
News In conjunction with the announcement, Microsoft also created a new business unit, Real Time Collaboration, as part of the Information Worker division. Anoop Gupta will head the new division and report to Jeff Raikes, Microsoft's group vice...
[January 22, 2003, 10:33]
