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"Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's now-deposed head of all things Windows, is not going so quietly into that good night. The ex-Microsoftie took to a blog written by another former Microsoft exec to set the record straight on just how much power he pursued.\nEver since Sinofsky's abrupt departure from Microsoft on Monday, pundits and industry insiders have all tried to figure out why he left. Most point to Sinofsky's hard-nosed style and some fundamental disagreements with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Former Microsoft Engineer and Manager Hal Berenson, who blogs at \"Hal's (Im)Perfect Vision,\" posited that Sinofsky tried to \"bring both Windows Phone and the Developer Division under his control.\" \nBerenson described Sinofsky's political power within the Microsoft organization as \"peaking\" and believed that, based on the former Windows Lead's sometimes tense relationships with other Division leaders, \"most of the top 2-3 levels of leadership in those organizations would have quit.\"\nApparently this was all a little too much for Sinofsky, who jumped into the comments yesterday to set the record straight. Sinofsky said he \"never initiated discussions\" about merging Windows and Windows Phone divisions. He also made it clear that Berenson may not know Sinofsky as well as he thinks he does: \"If we had worked together you would know that historically, very few things moved into teams I managed.\"\nObviously, Sinofsky would like to dispel the notion that he was a power-hungry egomaniac. I never saw any of that, though, as I noted in an earlier post, Sinofsky did not suffer fools gladly. \nStill, the idea of the Windows (Windows 8 and Windows RT) merging is not as ridiculous as it seems. I remember the Windows 7 PDC event where Sinofsky took the stage to explain all the awesome changes that would return Windows to its former glory. They sounded pretty good, but at that same time Windows Mobile was in horrible straits, an absolutely abysmal mobile OS that would have been better off dead. However, when we asked Sinofsky how the Windows 7 changes might translate to Windows Mobile, the Sinofsky-led Windows Team told us Windows Mobile 7 wasn't on the same development track as Windows 7. They essentially knew nothing about it.\nObviously, cross-departmental collaboration, something Sinofsky mentioned in his blog comment, changed all that and now Windows Phone 8 shares the same Windows kernel as Windows 8. So while no single person is running all of the Windows Divisions, they are moving forward, more or less, with one mind.\nFrom that perspective, merging the two divisions makes some business sense, and even if Sinofsky never suggested it, Ballmer probably should have. The fact that he did not may speak to Ballmer's apparent distaste for Sinofsky. If the Microsoft CEO eventually puts Julie Larson-Green at the head of all Windows divisions, we'll know that was the case."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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