Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Sinofsky Named Windows Division President (Official Announcement and Memo)
Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, was given a bump-up in title today. He was promoted to president, joining Stephen Elop, Bob Muglia, Qi Lu and Robbie Bach as the fifth company executive with that title. The official announcement and all-hands memo, after the jump.




Microsoft has finally given Windows 7 a release date. According to Bill Veghte, senior vice president for Windows, the next iteration of the company’s operating system will arrive at market in time for the holiday shopping season.
Microsoft appears to have finally come to terms with the idea that some Windows users will skip Vista altogether and run XP until Windows 7 arrives at market in 2011. Or 2014. Or two years after the next official release date Microsoft announces.