New focus on online service at Microsoft
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft is accelerating a pilot effort to run customers' desktop computers and e-mail systems, and it assigned the vice president and 500 workers on the project to a business group.
Ron Markezich, who was co-chief information officer, will focus on managed services and will report to server software business chief Bob Muglia, spokesman Tom Ryan said Tuesday in an e-mail.
The pilot program was previously part of the company's own information technology unit.
Microsoft has added a second customer for the service, insurer XL Capital Ltd., after starting with Energizer Holdings Inc. more than a year ago.