Just forward of its Windows Phone 7 (Series) unveiling on February 15 at the Mobile Globe Congress display in Barcelona, Microsoft is producing public specifics about a number of the new bosses running things there.1st up may be the freshly minted Corporate Vice President of Windows Telephone Engineering — Terry Myerson. According to new specifics published on February 12, Myerson is the lead with the team delivering “the software in the heart of Windows Phones and Zune devices,
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Office Pro 2010 Key, and the operating system.”Windows Compact Edition already is “at the heart” of both Windows Mobile phones and Zune HD devices. But the wording of Myerson;s bio leads me to believe there;s even more synergy between these groups. Hello “Zune Phone” (a k a Windows Telephone 7 offerings running Zune music/video services….?(Windows Phone seven increasingly is sounding like the new name for Windows Cellular seven. If so, the new branding is a departure for Microsoft, which has been using “Windows Mobile” to refer to the name of its mobile working system, but “Windows Phone” to refer to OEM-supplied phones running Windows Cellular.)Myerson most lately was head with the Exchange team, a position he held for eight years. He left that position in 2008 to join the Windows Mobile team, but in an until-now-publicly-unspecificed role. (Rajesh Jha took over his job when he moved to Mobile. ) Myerson joined Microsoft in 1997, after Microsoft acquired his company, Interse Corporation.I;ve also gotten a couple of tips about Softie Brian Arbogast;s recent “retirement.” Twenty-four-year Microsoft veteran Arbogast, as of 2009, was the Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Mobile Services. In that role, Arbogast was in charge of “the mobile services strategy,
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