Microsoft appoints new platform strategist
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft has expanded the job description of its competitive business strategist and appointed a more senior person to the job. The Redmond, Washington, software vendor named company veteran Martin Taylor "platform strategist" as part of its end-of-financial-year staff shuffle, a company spokeswoman said last week.
Taylor succeeds Peter Houston, who as senior director of server strategy had been tasked with driving Microsoft's competitive server business strategy with respect to Linux and other open source products. The job has been expanded from just servers to cover all Windows platforms. Also, Taylor is higher up in Microsoft's hierarchy as a "general manager" of competitive strategy.