Microsoft Taps Top AT&T Wireless Executive to Lead Windows Product Team

Microsoft Taps Top AT&T Wireless Executive to Lead Windows Product Team: "Microsoft Corp. today announced that former AT&T Wireless and E*TRADE executive Michael Sievert has been named corporate vice president for Windows? product management.
Sievert will be responsible for marketing, product management and product planning for the Windows Client, including the next version of Microsoft? Windows, code-named 'Longhorn,' slated for release in 2006. Sievert comes to Microsoft via AT&T Wireless Services Inc., where he had served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer since 2002. In that post, Sievert was responsible for product management for the company's $15 billion core business, and had profit and loss responsibility for several product lines. He was twice named by Advertising Age as one of the 25 most influential people in marketing. Before joining AT&T Wireless, Sievert was executive vice president and chief global marketing and sales officer at E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corp. Before that, he held various positions with IBM Corp. and The Procter & Gamble Company."