Microsoft redoubling focus on mobile service providers
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Redmond appoints new corporate VP to spearhead its rechristened communications sector. Microsoft has renamed its network-service-provider business and appointed a new corporate vice president to spearhead the subsidiary.
On Thursday, the Redmond software vendor announced it had brought in 20-year communications-industry veteran Maria Martinez to head the communications and mobile solutions unit of Microsoft's rechristened communications sector. The communications sector is part of Pieter Knook's mobile and embedded devices unit, one of Microsoft's seven profit-and-loss centers.