Jeff Raikes

Raikes talks about how companies can be successful at software and hardware, but only within a certain scope. If you're looking at the overall market, ...

Find what you have a passion for and find a company that represents that, says Raikes. Life is too short to focus on money. Interviewers ...

Raikes talks about how many palm devises failed before Palm because hugely successful. Microsoft is still working on a tablet PC, though efforts in the ...

Broad-based leadership is important to the success of a venture, says Raikes. Though everyone cannot have every skill, it is important to bring together a ...

Raikes talks about how Microsoft's success at innovating business models equals its success in technology innovation. Before Microsoft, there was no market for a company ...

Raikes explains that PowerPoint was created as a new way to present overhead slides. Microsoft made the bet that people would be willing to change ...

In Raikes' early days at Microsoft, the strategy was to focus on agility--to have the products run on a number of different computing platforms. To ...

Raikes talks about how Microsoft participates in a broad range of competitive and evolving businesses in the software industry. They are transforming into seven business: ...

Raikes explains how Microsoft has 5 computers for every employee, close to 70 subsidiaries around the world, and only 40% of their revenue comes from the Unites States. ...

Jeff Raikes, group vice president of Productivity and Business Services (PBS) at Microsoft Corporation, explains his own background and how being open to opportunities helped ...

In this decade, there will be a shift in the way small and medium companies do business, says Raikes. The next generation of workers will ...