1. Steven Jay Sinofsky was born on 1965 and is an American businessman, investor and software engineer.
25 Facts About Steven Sinofsky
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Steven Sinofsky served as president of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 until his resignation on November 13,2012.
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In 1998 and in 2013, Sinofsky was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School where he worked with students enrolled in a second year class on technology product development taught by Marco Iansiti and Stefan Thomke.
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Steven Sinofsky was born in New York City in 1965 to parents Marsha and David Sinofsky.
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Steven Sinofsky pursued his postgraduate education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied under J Eliot B Moss in the area of object-oriented languages and databases, and acquired a Masters of Science in computer science in 1989.
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Steven Sinofsky spent 3 semesters learning Russian while he was in college.
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Steven Sinofsky later served as a technical assistant to Bill Gates.
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Steven Sinofsky was actively involved in recruiting for Microsoft and improving employee retention.
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In 1994, when the Office Product Unit was formed, Steven Sinofsky joined the team as group program manager, to oversee the development of Microsoft Office.
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Steven Sinofsky oversaw the last release of 16-bit Office, Office 95, Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003.
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In 1998, Steven Sinofsky was promoted to vice president of Office and then to senior vice president in 2000.
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Steven Sinofsky moved to the Windows division in 2006, where he led the Windows Experience Team, which included Windows user experience and online services such as HotMail and Messenger.
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Steven Sinofsky was described as being "charged with nothing short of remaking the very image of Windows" and improving the efficiency and punctuality of releases.
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Steven Sinofsky became the president of the Windows division in July 2009.
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Steven Sinofsky refrained from labeling versions of Windows "major" or "minor", and instead just called them releases.
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Steven Sinofsky subsequently worked on Windows 8, which was intended to modernize Windows.
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Steven Sinofsky quietly created an internal team to develop the Surface computers, initially two models Surface RT and Surface Pro, for Nvidia ARM processor and Intel respectively.
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Steven Sinofsky left Microsoft on December 31,2012, after the failed launch of Windows 8.
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Steven Sinofsky's departure was described by both parties as a mutual decision, but some news outlets speculated that it was the result of friction between himself and CEO Steve Ballmer.
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Microsoft disclosed in an SEC filing that Steven Sinofsky would have a one-year non-compete contract in exchange for an estimated $14 million of stock.
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In 2012, Steven Sinofsky joined the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner.
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Steven Sinofsky is an angel investor, and has invested in Tanium, Product Hunt, Everlaw, and Box.
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Steven Sinofsky is known for writing about the technology and startups on various online platforms.
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Steven Sinofsky co-authored the book One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making with Marco Iansiti of Harvard Business School.
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In 2020, it was announced that Steven Sinofsky was writing Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution, a first-person account of the PC told through the projects Steven Sinofsky worked on and the competitive and technology landscape at the time.