charlagame
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Microsoft's Corps organization chart, how they are structured, seems very incoherent to me.
Bloomberg: Ballmer may name Windows boss as new head of hardware / Xbox
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Random Eclipse
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It seems like there will be a specific leader of the Xbox division, with her being who they report to.
The bigger news should be about who that specific person is going to be.
The bigger news should be about who that specific person is going to be.
Well if the rumours are true expect it to become a lot clearer very soon.
GoofsterStud
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I hope so.. She's not a hardware gal. :-/
I am sure most who said they would cancel never had it preordered in the first place as that would be a ridiculous reason to cancel a preorder.
PairOfFilthySocks
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To be fair it's been quite a while since Microsoft put anyone on stage who seemed genuine.
They're certainly both women.dunno the background of the lady, but I'm having a HUGE deja vu here.
rakkadakka
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She was brought on well after the vision for Win 8 was created. That was Sinofsky who is no longer with MS.
The larger issue here is the re-org that MS is going through, whatever position she takes might not end up being the equivalent of what Mattrick had.
Oh, I dunno, I remember the OpenOffice guys amongst others tearing out their hair at the woeful state of the specification and file format.
Didn't google, but had this in my bookmarks, and I hope it's been mostly rectified by now, but look at this coding tale of horror from 2007.
Open office is good. LibreOffice is even better. But they're not remotely as polished or as functional as MS Office. Especially in enterprise.
PsihoPerihelion
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Now I want this Qi Lu guy to head their hardware division.
Hey guys! Let's start a twitter campaing. #QiLuSaveTheXbox Let's be the white knights and heroes of the internet! GAF ASSEMBLE!
Hahaha.
dunno the background of the lady, but I'm having a HUGE deja vu here.
I don't even know what to say. Dunaway is in sales and marketing. Larson-Green has a background in engineering and programing and used to run office and now runs the Windows division. They're skills are not remotely the same, nor are their responsibilities.
Unless you're just being sexist.
The guy I responded to..
krypt0nian
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It's cool, guys. She's my friend in Candy Crush.
Ingueferroque
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I wish Allard would make a come back.
Maximilian Kolbe
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Alright get some news from my MS friend
He said "several peoples" scramble for the new Xbox boss position,he even said it's "fun to watch" if you(me) are MS employee
So i guess we won't know who's the new boss of Xbox division until July 18 at least
He said "several peoples" scramble for the new Xbox boss position,he even said it's "fun to watch" if you(me) are MS employee
So i guess we won't know who's the new boss of Xbox division until July 18 at least
LOL. I guess it's kinda the same when you boo Balotelli for being an idiot and you get called out for racism.
Just pointing out that among people like Harrison, Mehdi, and even Allard she doesn't strike me as a sensible choice. Sex is not a factor in this, unless we're talking about another Cammie Dunaway and not the one that was blantantly out of place in her role at Nintendo. We're going from a guy who had a huge videogame-specific background to her. Not the direction I'd like to see.
But hey: sexism!
SatelliteOfLove
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Well, it's more them jumping on looks and not trackrecord instead of latter then former and there's where the problem is.
Fucking hell, sorry bud. I didn't read your quote properly. My bad
My original post is directed at him in that case.Max any idea who these potentials are?
If your being sarcastic ignore me lol
That's not true if that were the case those Jade Raymond threads would be all about how she looked and what she was wearing that what she has accomplished...oh wait.
Messed up times for MS, interested to see how they plan on righting the ship
People wouldn't say sexism if you could articulate the ways in which a programmer and a marketer are similar, other than both having a vagina. FYI, the gaming industry is full of execs who don't play games, or having a gaming (or even technical) background. Yusuf Mehdi doesn't have a videogame-specific background. Neither did Allard before Xbox. Harrison is the only one you mentioned who has been in the games industry for a while.
Yeah, Microsoft spent $1 billion on games, and $700 million on 300,000 servers towards Xbox Live (and Office 365) because the Xbox platform is not a priority.
Not predicting the future, of course. She could end up being awesome in that role as anyone. But as I mentioned, going from Mattrick to her doesn't inspire me great trust. Of course, you're welcome to build whatever vagina-conspiration you want about that. I guess it makes a good pair with me being called out for the opposite reason when protesting about Gamereactor removing Ellie from their TLOU cover : )
Or Gabe threads.
Maximilian Kolbe
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Not sarcastic but still take it as grain of salt
Not even sure how they scramble it,maybe ballmer will set a ladder match for the contract lol
Tell her to bing NeoGaf!!! Lol!
Kabuki Quantum Lover
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Oh boy this could go wrong. Nothing against JLG, but that's a wide net to focus on.
IceDoesntHelp
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Oh boy.
Beer Monkey
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You do know that they showed more exclusive games at E3 than Sony and Nintendo?
lastflowers
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MS has been moving for some time for unifying a lot of the 'core'. WP/Windows/Xbox now share this core, so each OS has it's own flavor on top of the core.
Unifying the different divisions could be useful, as it would accelerate development in the similarities between the three OSes. Think about the 'Bing' apps on Win8. If every part of the platform and development tools were the same, much of the code-behind portion of porting the news, sports, finance, etc apps revolve around targeting a particular form factor. With Xbox, you can use voice commands to pan, with windows phone you change to a more Vertical swipe instead of horizontal.
Having the groups under one 'roof' so-to-speak incentivizes that cross-collaboration. That XKCD comic might have been extremely relevant 5 years ago, but nowadays it's seemingly less and less relevant. Teams are way more interested in helping each other out, and ICs want to meet up and discuss how features can affect each other.
Unifying the different divisions could be useful, as it would accelerate development in the similarities between the three OSes. Think about the 'Bing' apps on Win8. If every part of the platform and development tools were the same, much of the code-behind portion of porting the news, sports, finance, etc apps revolve around targeting a particular form factor. With Xbox, you can use voice commands to pan, with windows phone you change to a more Vertical swipe instead of horizontal.
Having the groups under one 'roof' so-to-speak incentivizes that cross-collaboration. That XKCD comic might have been extremely relevant 5 years ago, but nowadays it's seemingly less and less relevant. Teams are way more interested in helping each other out, and ICs want to meet up and discuss how features can affect each other.
Syphon Filter
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Ever since Bill Gates left things have gone to crap.
RumblingRosco
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It's getting trojan horsed
dantevsninjas
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Just what the XboxOne needs, more of the great decision making that went into Windows 8!
You don't need to be a gamer to manage a company. Heck,it may be better if you aren't a gamer.
Having said that, isn't Ballmer very... hated as director at Microsoft?
Syphon Filter
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Allard needs to make a triumphant return.
If they get him that will be a step in the right direction.