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Sure, Microsoft might be riding high these days on the back of generative AI, but it wasn't always so successful. Remember Windows Vista? The antitrust fight with the US government? Windows Phone?
That thought struck me this weekend as I was reading through a collection of old Microsoft emails and documents featuring the likes of Steve Ballmer, Steven Sinofsky, and other former executives ...
The software engineer Steven Sinofsky, formerly the head of Microsoft’s Windows division, was wandering around downtown Seattle recently when he ran into “The Problem.” “The street has ...
Ten years later, we've caught up with former Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky to explore how Windows 8 got started, how it predicted several current trends in computing, and how he feels ...
Details of what led to to the abrupt departure of the man who delivered Windows 8 are still trickling out. But sources say Microsoft's CEO knew he had to make a change. Jay Greene, a CNET senior ...
Former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky recently shared a video showing off an early concept of Windows 8. The presentation was shown to Microsoft employees back in 2010 to illustrate how the ...
In a detailed Twitter thread, Steven Sinofsky, a technology investor and advisor, and former Microsoft Windows president, cautioned against equating communication with collaboration, or drawing ...
SEE MORE Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former Windows president Steven Sinofsky met for a surprising chat on Thursday night when they appeared together on the invite-only conversation app ...
The revelation comes in the first chapter of former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky’s autobiography, which is being published online. Sinofsky recounts a phone call he received from Bill Gates in ...
Former Windows Division chief Steven Sinofsky has offered some context and a defense for Microsoft's war on open source in the 1990s and early 2000s. Sinofsky has fired off a series of tweets in ...
Apple’s marketing team might want you to think the iPad Pro is “not a computer”, but try telling that to former Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky. The man who gave the world Windows 8 is now ...
Some of the vintage hardware used by Steven Sinofsky to help refresh his memory of the early PC era while researching his new book (with help from his cat, Zozo, on the keyboard). The machine on ...