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Microsoft’s Craig Mundie Indicates That Siri Does Not Impress Him [VIDEO]
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie was recently interviewed by Forbes. In the interview, Mundie suggested that he was not impressed much with Apple’s voice recognition service for the iPhone 4S known as Siri. “The TellMe facility has been in the Windows Phone 7 for more than a year. So I mean I just think that people are infatuated with Apple announcing it,” said Mundie. Microsoft acquired TellMe in 2007. Check out the interview in the video below:
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Microsoft Corporate VP Sanjay Parthasarathy Stepping Down In September
Microsoft confirmed this past Friday that Corporate VP Sanjay Parthasarathy will be stepping down after 19 years. Parthasarathy was the Corporate VP in charge of the company’s Startup Business Accelerator program. Parthasarathy will be retiring in September.
Amit Mital will be taking over Parthasarathy’s responsibilities. Mital currently runs the “Unlimited Potential” division. Parthasarathy and Mital both report to Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie.
Parthasarathy has previously managed Micrsoft’s developer and platform evangelism team Channel 9 and the Image Cup competition. Parthasarathy joined Microsoft in August 1990 as a Windows multimedia group product manager.
[via CNET]