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Microsoft dives into unified comms
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Business Division president Jeff Raikes have formally launched several products that are key to the company's strategy of offering "unified communications" for businesses - that is, software for bringing together... [17 Oct 2007]
Microsoft to buy speech-recognition web firm?
News In an interview earlier this month, Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes talked up the role mobile devices will play, as well as the potential for merging voice and data, but declined to comment specifically on speculation the company... [13 Mar 2007]
Gates and Ballmer get reduced bonuses
News Once again, the duo were topped in annual compensation by Kevin Johnson, co-president of the company's platforms and services division, which includes Windows, and Jeff Raikes, president of its business division, which includes Microsoft Office. [05 Oct 2006]
Gates gives up Microsoft day job
News In the audience for Gates' press conference were many of the company's business and technical leaders, including Ozzie, Mundie, retiring Windows chief Jim Allchin, incoming Windows chief Steven Sinofsky, as well as the three divisional presidents... [16 Jun 2006]
Microsoft moves Office launch to 2007
News Microsoft said Sinofsky will work with Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes in the coming weeks to help determine who will lead the Office business after his move. Fresh on the heels of a delay in broad availability of Windows Vista... [24 Mar 2006]
Office 12: Microsoft to bolster BI credentials
News Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Business Division president, said in a statement: "Until now, Business Intelligence software has been too complex, costly, and disconnected from the software tools people use every day to do their jobs. [24 Oct 2005]
Gates and Ballmer finally top $1m pay
News Jeff Raikes, who heads the unit that includes Microsoft Office, received $1.15m in salary and bonus in fiscal 2005, while former sales chief Kevin Johnson received $1.05m in salary and bonus. Gates and Ballmer will get a base pay of $620,000, while... [29 Sep 2005]
All change in Redmond as Microsoft does a reboot
News Jeff Raikes will head up the company's Business division, which will house Microsoft's Information Worker group (which includes its Office product line), and its Business Solutions packaged applications group. [21 Sep 2005]
Novell-Microsoft antitrust court clash continues
News In his decision allowing one of the two Microsoft claims to proceed, Motz cited a now infamous 1997 email from Office unit head Jeff Raikes to investor Warren Buffet, in which Raikes said applications such as Word and Excel can serve as a "moat... [14 Jun 2005]
Gates gives a glimpse of Office 12
News Microsoft group vice president Jeff Raikes said in an interview: "There are things that are still hard as well as things that have gotten harder. Some things, such as email, have improved but have also raised new challenges, Raikes said. [19 May 2005]
Microsoft gets its Groove on
News Jeff Raikes, group vice president of Microsoft's Information Worker group, said Microsoft intends to keep the Groove facility and may expand its operations in the area. Ozzie, Raikes and other Microsoft executives announced the acquisition to... [11 Mar 2005]
Microsoft IM release almost here
News Gates will be joined at the San Francisco event by Jeff Raikes, head of the division responsible for Office and Office-branded products such as Live Communications Server, and Anoop Gupta, head of the real-time collaboration unit and the company's... [28 Feb 2005]
Gates joins Buffett at investment firm
News In 1997, top Microsoft Office executive Jeff Raikes sent Buffett an email urging the billionaire to consider investing in Microsoft, noting the economic "moat" between Microsoft and its competitors was stronger than other Hathaway investments... [15 Dec 2004]
Gates and Ballmer keep pay steady at $900,000
News Office unit head Jeff Raikes received more than $962,000 in cash and bonuses. As part of the company's new practice of giving restricted shares to top executives who meet certain customer satisfaction goals, Allchin, Johnson and Raikes also are... [21 Sep 2004]
The secret email the Microsoft VP wrote Buffett
News One such document could be a 1997 email note from Jeff Raikes, a Microsoft group VP, asking billionaire Warren Buffett to consider investing in the Redmond, Washington-based software company. Some observers have likened Microsoft's lucrative... [18 Mar 2004]
