Dinner! Microsoft names new CIO
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
They call it dog food, but it's one of Microsoft's most important internal functions, and someone new is now in charge of delivering it. The company Friday named Ron Markezich its new chief information officer. Among other duties, Markezich will oversee the process of rolling out new software to Microsoft's employees before its broader release -- a practice known internally as "eating your own dog food."
Markezich, who joined Microsoft in 1998, also will oversee the Redmond company's global corporate network, encompassing about 7,000 computer servers and 150,000 desktop computers, plus an additional 50,000 computers used by vendors and employees for external access.