For starters, Elop until he came to Nokia was president of the Microsoft Business Division, so he has close to Redmond.
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We also note that a potential bundling of Office into WOA devices only could drive the price of WOA devices higher, but in this case the Microsoft Business Division segment would see some revenue headwind.
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Raikes, 49, joined Microsoft in 1981, and was instrumental in building Microsoft's business division into the Redmond, Wash.
"Our fundamental strategy is around broadening the definition of productivity, " says Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division, the company's largest unit.
Microsoft's sprawling business division now competes with Cisco for the business of digitizing office voice communications (bolstered by Raikes' acquisition of voice-recognition software specialist Tellme last March) and Elop will have to take on online threats to Microsoft's productivity software, such as the free online productivity tools offered by Google, as well.
Microsoft's sprawling business division now competes with Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) for the business of digitizing office voice communications (bolstered by Raikes' acquisition of voice-recognition software specialist Tellme last March) and Elop will have to take on online threats to Microsoft's productivity software, such as the free online productivity tools offered by Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), as well.
He served as Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development at Paramount Pictures and also ran Global Wireless Strategy and Business Development for the digital media division at Microsoft Corporation.
Peter Moore, corporate vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division of Microsoft, described Xbox Live recently as the "key weapon" in the next generation console battle.
Sheridan Jones, the director of business-strategy in Microsoft's Kinect for Windows division, said the company has had more than a half-million downloads of a software-development kit that it made available to developers about a year ago.
The videogame business is a lot like the record business, according to Ed Fries, Microsoft's game division general manager.
Raikes, who was president of the business division, was one of the most influential figures at Microsoft.
Raikes, who was president of the business division, was one of the most influential figures at Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
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