Julie Larson-Green

Julie Larson - Green (born 1962 ) is Executive Vice President of the "Devices and Studios Group" at Microsoft. As such it is responsible for all hardware, and Microsoft Studios. Previously, she was the managing director of the Windows Division at Microsoft.

Childhood

Larson - Green grew up in the district of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington.

Career

Larson - Green successfully studied business administration at Western Washington University and then worked for the support by the software company Aldus. She brought in this time, the programming itself in and closed her master's degree in computer science from. After that, she was business manager of the development department at her old employer Aldus, which has since been acquired by Adobe. In 1993 she became the Program Manager for Visual C to Microsoft. From 1997, she led the interface design of Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007. In 2012, she was Managing Director of the Windows Division at Microsoft. They took over the office of Steven Sinofsky, in November 2012, as this Microsoft had left. In the course of restructuring in July 2013 by the then CEO Steve Ballmer They rose to the head of the newly founded " Devices and Studios Group".