month before it was to release a major update of its Office entourage , Microsoft has substitute the worldwide manager of its Macintosh Business Unit .
Roz Ho , who drop seven yr with the Mac BU including the last four as its general managing director , is joining the Entertainment & Devices Division . Her replacement is Craig Eisler , who rejoined Microsoft in February after assist as the ecumenical manager of AOL Wireless . He had worked at Microsoft previously as ontogenesis managing director of DirectX.
“ Microsoft and Apple are both smashing company in their own right hand , and work in Mac BU , I get to have the near of both worlds , ” Eisler wrote ina web log postingannouncing his hiring .
“ With Craig ’s deep scope in technology and product maturation , his exhibit business leaders , and his respect for Apple , I have every confidence that he will continue to drive a rich relationship with Apple and convey on the Macintosh Business Unit ’s tradition of deliver outstanding native Mac productivity software , ” collective frailty president Tom Gibbons said in a program line allow for by Microsoft .
Eisler take over the Mac BU as Microsoft is pass its flagship Mac product , Microsoft Office for the Mac . Microsoft previewed Office 2008 at Macworld Expo in January and say the Intel - aboriginal productiveness rooms would send in the second one-half of this year . A Microsoft spokesperson indicated that the management change would not have an effect on the passing schedule for Office 2008 .
Ho was name school principal of the Mac BU in December 2002 , interchange Kevin Browne . Prior to her general coach stint , she oversaw product development , direction and examination for retinue , Outlook Express , PowerPoint , Internet Explorer and MSN for Mac OS X. Ho joined the Macintosh Business Unit in 2000 .
This article was reposted at 3:31 p.m. PT on June 8 , 2007 , to correct information about Roz Ho ’s duration of service at the Macintosh Business Unit .
