Longtime Microsoft executive leaving company
Microsoft confirmed on Friday that longtime executive Sanjay Parthasarathy is leaving the software maker after 19 years.
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(Credit: Microsoft)Parthasarathy, the corporate vice president in charge of Microsoft's Startup Business Accelerator program, plans to retire from the company in September, a Microsoft representative said. Microsoft said his departure had been planned for some time and that it is unrelated to recent job cuts at the company.
His responsibilities will be taken over by Amit Mital, who runs the "Unlimited Potential" unit that handles emerging markets. Mital will handle duties for both units, though they will remain separate operations. Mital, like Parthasarathy, reports to chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie.
Prior to heading the start-up unit, Parthasarathy had been running Microsoft's --the group responsible for efforts such as Channel 9 and the Imagine Cup competition.
He joined Microsoft in August 1990 as a product manager in the Windows multimedia group.
Parthasarathy's departure was reported earlier Friday by PaidContent.org.
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Rumor has it that he's switching to the Mac.
As for the superior computer, that's up for debate. But since Microsoft doesn't make computers, it really doesn't matter, does it?
You are correct!
Microsoft is selling to Mac users all the time!
Thanks to Boot Camp, VMWare Fusion, etc., Microsoft is going to do well with Windows 7.
I can see a very good future dawning and would advise US interest groups to work well towards interesting technological developments that can arise and empower the people of the wider Earthly work force.
- by luke_marsh June 13, 2009 11:17 AM PDT
- The construct of the mac kernel is not as powerful as the one now in Windows 7 not that it's being anywhere used in terms of it's full potential. I may myself want to able to boot well all system possibility's but I do know what's in that windows engine even if the interface and use at present is limited even at the military scale. Think about that. Of course what would such have to do with external interests in a poorly made use of code architectural type owned by Microsoft not that I don't think the more Unix based Architectures don't also hold other potentials also I know for a fact the Wine groups are very interest in some things that aren't that apparent when you switch into a standard windows .
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- by servermaker June 13, 2009 12:57 PM PDT
- I absolutely agree with all that.
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(13 Comments)This might be because windows was initial a very poor IBM copied Codex and most of it poor er issues relate to previous incarnations and developments. There's a lot of things that haven't been done with the windows ode set yet that could change computing and holding it down to the standard Environment form is actually holding the potential back.