Stephen Elop career were quite peculiar. From 2008 to 2010 he was responsible at Microsoft for the software product family Office, then fate brought him to Finland, where he began a process of rapprochement with the US Nokia software giant. What happened then, many of us remembers this day: Nokia began to rapidly lose market share in the segment of mobile phones.
According to agency Reuters, the new round of structural reforms in the Microsoft merger involves Devices Group, which is responsible for the production of smart phones and tablets, and the unit responsible for the operating systems family Windows. Incorporated structural unit will be referred to Windows and Devices Group, and it will be headed by Terry Myerson , which is now in charge of Microsoft operating systems. Stephen Elop will leave the state of the American corporation.
The acquisition of mobile business Nokia, which has cost Microsoft more than seven billion US dollars, never found much support from investors, and its main initiator was the former CEO Steve Ballmer. Now, under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft may have to write off the bulk of these costs.
Elop is not the only manager to leave Microsoft, . Kirill Taranov, who was responsible for software for customer support and is responsible for long-term strategy adviser Eric Rudder , too, will leave the company. In September, they will be joined by Mark Penn , who is also responsible for the policy of the company and long-term strategy.