Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft spekas during a press conference at Pier 57 to officially launch Windows 8 in New York October 25, 2012. Microsoft said Thursday its “reimagined” Windows 8 will launch Friday in 37 languages and 140 worldwide markets, as the tech giant unveiled the new […]
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Former head of Windows at Microsoft, Steven Sinofsky, has joined cloud storage firm Box as an advisor.
Box announced the move today, saying Sinofsky would provide experience and insight for the platform and the organization as a whole, noting that he “has a stronger and more fluid vision for the future of computing than almost anyone I’ve met”, according to Aaron Levie, co-founder of Box.
It is thought that Sinofsky could help Box make the transition from being a pure storage platform to being one that offers a full suite of document editing tools too. Sinofsky left Microsoft last November.
➤ Box via TechCrunch
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