Microsoft's Mundie looks beyond Gates
C|Net | at | by Mike
Keenly aware that no one person can replace Microsoft's cultural icon, the company has divided his responsibilities among two top executives. Ray Ozzie has taken over as chief software architect, but Gates' role overseeing technical strategy and policy has gone to Mundie.
While Ozzie is tasked with trying to reorganize Microsoft's product units to better prepare for a world of online services, Mundie is focused on issues such as how to get PCs in the hands of the next billion users and how the software industry must retool itself as chipmakers add more cores to chips instead of trying to simply speed them up.