Good luck Julie Larson-Green
I’ve been following Microsoft for a while now, fascinated by the disconnect between the huge amounts of money they make, the huge amount of people they effect, and on the other hand the reduction in what marketers would call “brand value”. In other words, while for every Mac in the world there are 10 PCs, in some places around the world it seems PCs just don’t exist.
A couple of weeks back Steven Sinofsky, the guy who ran Windows stepped down and was replaced with Julie Larson-Green. I don’t know either of them in person, but I had a chance of following both of them in the past years. I always thought of Sinofsky as a tough manager with very aggressive beliefs, thinking business-first. Larson-Green on the other strikes me as thinking user-first.
I got a chance to meet both of them in February in Barcelona, when the first customer preview of Windows 8 was shipped. We (Soluto) were invited to this very small event as one of the first 70 apps ever in the Windows Store.
Here’s me with Sinofsky (when I pulled an iPhone to take that picture he was like “an iPhone? Really??” - but it felt in good humor…)
And here’s a picture I took with Julie Larson-Green and Antoine Leblond, a very cool and funny Microsoft SVP
I’d like to wish Julie Larson-Green good luck in her new position. Regardless of your opinion on Microsoft, it is a beast with tons of cash and tons of excellent people. I’m sure they’ve got more interesting stuff up their sleeves, or at least I hope so. An Apple-only world will be very boring.
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