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Article posted: 11/17/2012 6:46 AM

Microsoft just lost its Steve Jobs

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Steven Sinofsky's departure from Microsoft comes just weeks after the company launched Windows 8, a major overhaul of the operating system that's used on most of the world's computers.

Associated Press/Octo. 25, 2012

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In a move nobody predicted, Microsoft announced that Steven Sinofsky, the executive who'd led the development of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet, was leaving the company. Sinofsky deserves all the credit (or blame) for Microsoft's new path. He led the development of Windows 8 single-mindedly and almost single-handedly, cutting out input from other divisions as well as from his underlings.