Microsoft's hardware chief shifting to services when Nokia's Elop arrives

Microsoft's hardware chief shifting to services when Nokia's Elop arrives Microsoft's hardware chief shifting to services when Nokia's Elop arrives | PCWorld Julie Larson-Green (Photo: Microsoft.) Julie Larson-Green, the Microsoft executive who co-led... More

Microsoft's hardware chief shifting to services when Nokia's Elop arrives Microsoft's hardware chief shifting to services when Nokia's Elop arrives | PCWorld Julie Larson-Green (Photo: Microsoft.) Julie Larson-Green, the Microsoft executive who co-led Windows development as recently as last summer and now heads the company"s hardware efforts, will move to the group responsible for Office, where she once worked, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire. Her change of jobs was likely triggered by promises made last September, when former CEO Steve Ballmer said that Stephen Elop, the then-CEO of Nokia, would rejoin Microsoft after the $7.4 billion acquisition of the Finnish company"s handset business to head an expanded devices group at Redmond. On one hand, Larson-Green"s departure from the Devices and Studios Group, one of four broadbased engineering divisions created after the 2013 "One Microsoft" reorganization launched by Ballmer, was not a surprise because of Elop"s immin Less