Julie Larson-Green

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Julie Larson-Green

Julie Larson-Green (* 1962 ) is Chief Experience Officer of the Office team at Microsoft. Previously, she was Executive Vice President of the Devices and Studios Group at Microsoft . As such, she was responsible for all hardware , as well as Microsoft Studios . In the past she was General Manager of the Windows Division at Microsoft.

childhood

Larson-Green grew up in Whatcom County in Washington State.

Career

Larson-Green successfully studied business administration at Western Washington University and then worked for the software manufacturer Aldus. During this time she taught herself to program and completed her master's degree in computer science. Then she became the manager of the development department at her old employer Aldus, which has since been taken over by Adobe. In 1993 she moved to Microsoft as a program manager for Visual C ++ . From 1997 she was in charge of the interface design of Office XP , Office 2003 and Office 2007 . In 2012 she became Managing Director of the Windows Division at Microsoft. She took over from Steven Sinofsky in November 2012 after he left Microsoft . In the course of restructuring in July 2013 by the then CEO Steve Ballmer , she was promoted to head of the newly founded "Devices and Studios Group". After the merger of the "Devices and Studios Group" with the Windows division, which has since been headed as a new division by the previous Windows boss Terry Myerson, she moved again as “Chief Experience Officer” to the Office division at Microsoft.

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  1. ↑ http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/jul13/07-11onemicrosoft.aspx
  2. ↑ MIT report
  3. ↑ report on zdnet.de
  4. ↑ http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/jul13/07-11onemicrosoft.aspx
personal data
SURNAME Larson-Green, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US director of the Windows Division at Microsoft
DATE OF BIRTH 1962