Microsoft: New Management Line Up
June 23, 2008
InfoWorld, a print publication that went all digital, contains a useful round up of Microsoft’s current senior management team. You can read the essay “Microsoft’s Post-Gates Management Team” here. The pop ups and quirky search engine make it difficult to locate some material on the InfoWorld Web site, so click this link while it still fresh (June 20, 2008).
The important point for me in Elizabeth Montalbano’s story is that no one is identified as having responsibility for search, text analysis, and content processing. I find this strange because search is the killer application for anyone working with information today.
My thoughts on this strange omission are:
- I am not smart enough to understand that search is the obvious responsibility of one of these senior managers, possibly Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division.
- Microsoft believes that other areas are more important than search, assuming that those in lower management ranks will be able to deal with Google’s dominance of this application space
- Microsoft is confident that the new Live.com initiatives and the enterprise Web part for SharePoint are the key steps needed to catch up with Google and then leap frog over it.
If you have other thoughts on the “owner” of search at Microsoft, let me know via the comments section.
Stephen Arnold, June 23, 2008
Update 1, June 23, 2008 6 30 pm Eastern: A reader provided us with this link. John Lervik is a corporate vice president, Microsoft Enterprise Search Group, in the Microsoft Business Division. Microsoft information page is here. A happy quack to the reader who took the time to provide this item.
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