Microsoft;s Unlimited Potential (UP) team has a brand new Corporate Vice President: Amit Mital, the former General Manager with the Reside Mesh and Developer Platform unit.Mital, a 15-year Microsoft veteran, is reporting to Anoop Gupta, whose title is “Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Unlimited Possible Group,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, Education Product Group, Technology Policy and Strategy.” Gupta took over last 12 months as head of UP when Microsoft Windows veteran Will Poole retired from his last Microsoft post, where he worked on emerging-market initiatives.Mital will be focusing on the mobile space, among others, as part of his new job. More on Mital;s responsibilities, from his bio on Microsoft;s Web site:“Mital works collaboratively across the company;s core groups, including Windows,
Office Enterprise 2007 Key, Office and Mobile Communications, as well as key field and segment organizations. Within the Unlimited Prospective Group, he is taking a leadership role in the strategic development areas of mobile phones, shared-access computing, low-cost computing and education solutions for emerging markets.”Microsoft has shown off various mobile offerings aimed at emerging-market users,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, including phones used as healthcare information hubs. Microsoft also is working on a new Microsoft technology codenamed Kojax that is aimed primarily at helping developers create applets for emerging-market customers using mobile phones as their primary “Mobile First” compute environments.The Unlimited Possible group is the group that pioneered Windows Starter Edition, FlexGo licensing,
Windows 7 Ultimate, StartKey and other products and projects aimed at bringing Microsoft technology to individuals in developing nations. It is also the staff that has worked with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative to get Windows on XO laptops.Microsoft recently moved the Reside Mesh group,
Office Pro Plus 2007 Key, of which Mital was the basic manager, under Steven Sinofsky, who is in charge of Windows and Windows Reside engineering.According to a Microsoft spokesperson, Mital joined the Limitless Prospective group in late 2008. The announcement of hiis new post was added to Microsoft;s collection of bios on February 17.