Comments on: Longtime Microsoft executive leaving company

Microsoft confirmed on Friday that longtime executive Sanjay Parthasarathy is retiring from the software maker in September after 19 years.

[Brian]

Sanjay Parthasarathy is leaving in September, just in time for the Snow Leopard release.

Rumor has it that he's switching to the Mac.

[YankeePoodle]

this my friend is the height of fanboyism

[monkeyfun14]

How would I know that some Apple fanboy would leave a stupid comment on a Microsoft article.

[Mr. Dee]

Well, who won't be doing anything productive anymore, so a useless platform such as the Mac and Linux will always be options.

[slickuser]

No, I believe he couldn't take it anymore.. 19 years is too long man..

[Brian]

If the rumor is true, then he will switch to a superior computer.

[Vegaman_Dan]

Switching to the Mac? Excellent! Microsoft loves it when peope put Windows on a Mac- it's one more license to sell.


As for the superior computer, that's up for debate. But since Microsoft doesn't make computers, it really doesn't matter, does it?

[Brian]

@Vegaman_Dan:

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.

[Montagy]

Not connected? What a laugh. This guy shows up two years ago bored with the work he was doing (I think he was on sabatical), and gathers a bunch of start-up groups into a "SBA" group. Then he changes every singles group direction multiple times (go broad and forget about the money, no strike that go deep and build partnerships, no strike that cut all costs and still deliver on time). Then all of the sudden Craig's group needs some sacraficial lambs so he doesn't have to layoff his "researcher" (which are hard at work between the hours of 11am and 3pm), so almost all Craig's cuts are made in Sanjay's group. Sanjay really had no idea what he was doing in SBA. Maybe he did in his former group, but in SBA he just had everyone chasing their tails. It's not too suprising he's "retiring", too bad that didn't happen in May along with the rest of the folks.

[t8]

Yay, another one leaving.

[luke_marsh]

An Excellent move and good Luck to Sanjay an excellent man of good work too.
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.

[luke_marsh]

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 .
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.

[servermaker]

I absolutely agree with all that.