Office leader promoted to Windows hot seat
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Although insisting that a sudden change in top management is not related to news that Windows Vista has slipped its schedule, sources inside the company say that Microsoft has promoted a veteran executive to head its Windows efforts, according to news reports.
Steven Sinofsky, 40 and currently senior vice president of Microsoft Office, will move to take over the Windows division, according to a story Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, quoting unidentified sources within the company.
The move is seen as significant, but it is not unusual for the company to shuffle executives as part of larger and frequent reorganizations. For example, the Journal story points to last fall?s reorg of the entire company by CEO Steve Ballmer from seven separate businesses down to three.