Julie Larson-Green

The former head of Windows engineering, Julie Larson-Green will now lead the Devices and Studios Engineering Group. As the name suggests, this division manages all the development and supply chains of Microsoft devices that is from mices to Xboxes. By putting it-in-a-box, this division will responsible for all the music, video, gaming and entertainment groups.

Since joining Microsoft in 1993, Larson-Green has been deeply involved in all the technical aspects of the company. In 1997, she joined the Microsoft Office team, and won a technical leadership award in 2003. Between autumn 2012 and July 11, 2013 she was responsible for the software and hardware engineering in the Windows section.

For Larson-Green, Microsoft is more than passion. She has overseen the successful launch of Microsoft operating system, Windows 7. In 1997, she joined the Office team. She led UI design for Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007.

Larson-Green also has been Corporate Vice President, Program Management, Windows Client. She has had between 1,200 and 1,400 program managers, researchers, content managers and other members of the Windows team reporting to her. She worked on the user experience for IE 3.0 and 4.0 and then, in 1997, to the Office team to work on FrontPage, where she got her first group program manager job. She also did a stint on the SharePoint Team Services team, back when SharePoint was known as "Office.Net."

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