Steven Sinofsky

Steven Sinofsky Jay ( born October 6, 1965 in New York City ) was from July 2009 to November 2012 the directors of the Windows Division at Microsoft. He was responsible for the development and marketing of Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer.

Biography

Sinofsky in 1987 received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1989 and a master's degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in computer science.

In July 1989, Steven Sinofsky joined the company as an engineer at Microsoft for software development. In 1994, the Microsoft Office product line was created, it was then chief for program management and led the development of the shared technologies in Microsoft Office 95 and Microsoft Office 97 Five years Sinofsky was an engineer for software development and project leader of the group of tools in which he substantially was involved in the creation of the first versions of the Microsoft Foundation Classes C library for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Visual C .

Previously, he oversaw the progress of the Microsoft Office system programs, servers and services. In addition, he was responsible for the development of Microsoft Office 2007 and the new Ribbon UI, responsible for Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2000. Steven Sinofsky has been actively involved in recruiting for Microsoft. In his TechTalk Blog Sinofsky wrote in detail about his efforts and what it means to be an employee of Microsoft.

Sinofsky led the teams that work on Windows 7 and later Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10 and Windows Live Wave 5.

On November 13, 2012 Sinofsky Microsoft left unexpectedly. The company gave no reasons for his departure known, but experts suspect it in a conflict with Steve Ballmer. Sinofsky was temporarily traded even as his successor. Among his successors were appointed Julie Larson - Green and Tami Reller.