Delbene Curt (Kurt DelBene)

Delbene Curt (Kurt DelBene)

Education

The University of Chicago (degree - MBA)

University of Arizona (Bachelor of Industrial Engineering)

Stanford university (degree - Master of Science)

Career

In July, 2013 it became known that Kurt DelBene, 53-year-old, earlier heading the Microsoft Office direction, will resign as he was not appointed by the head of any of four new engineering groups which will be created as a result of reorganization of Microsoft.

It was declared by the chief executive of corporation Steve Ballmer. "Curt made a huge contribution to start of a cloud service of Office, he was one of key persons of my team of leaders", - Ballmer said.

Delbene worked in the company 21 years, including heading development of a packet of Office, one of key sources of profit for a division of business solutions of Microsoft. According to BusinessWeek, Delbene's compensation for 2012 made $7.9 million.

For the last 9 of 10 quarters this division generated corporations more revenues, than any another. For example, in the first quarter 2013 31% of turnover of the company, on the second place on revenue division of Windows – 28% were the share of a division.

As a result of the reorganization announced by Ballmer, the Office direction will be introduced into the block of applications and services (Applications and Services), this block headed Qi Lu (Qi Lu), and in addition it will include also developers Bing Microsoft Exchange Lync Microsoft SharePoint, Skype and Yammer. Until now Lu was engaged in the Bing search service and programs advertizing online.

In the first decade of July Steve Ballmer announced the significant conversions concerning the purposes, strategy and structure of corporation, having sent to all her employees corresponding ^[1]. Microsoft stakes on integrated solutions (iron plus software) and is going to develop a line of own devices.

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