Microsoft Server and Tools boss Muglia given president title
Microsoft has promoted Bob Muglia, a long-serving executive, to president of the collection’s Server and Tools Business, a unit that has turned 25 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth. The promotion, announced Monday, makes Muglia one of four presidents at the companionship.
“The core of our success at Microsoft has everlastingly been great lower classes — tribe who combine talent, drive, vision, customer focus and leadership,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in an e-mail announcing the promotion.
“… Few people at Microsoft embody these qualities more fully than Bob Muglia, and not many people have contributed to a greater degree to the company’s success.”
The Server and Tools Business is Microsoft’s third act, after the extremely profitable Windows and Office franchises. The business includes programming tools and software for the powerful server computers used by corporations and Internet sites.
It is commonly cited as any illustration of in what condition the company was able to expand into a new place of traffic.
Ballmer commended Muglia’s predominance and success in the effort.
“Bob has established Microsoft as the industry leader in providing great server products to companies of every one of sizes,” Ballmer said in the e-mail. “… In the process, he has helped build a remarkably successful business that has grown from in effect nothing a decade ago to more than $13 billion in [Microsoft’s last fiscal year].”
That’s more than 20 percent of Microsoft’s revenue, Ballmer noted.
Muglia’sitting business is facing one of its most challenging periods, with corporations expected to plight spending in the down economy.
At the same measure, he’s helping oversee Windows Azure, a major column of Microsoft’s cloud-computing efforts.
In the by, Muglia has taken on of importance yet unglamorous tasks at Microsoft, including leading a huge technical-documentation contrivance required under the company’s antitrust settlement.
He also has held positions in several other Microsoft businesses, including MSN, Office and Windows NT.
