New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made two important albeit expected appointments to his executive team. The big cheese announced on Monday that his company will remove the "interim" from Scott Guthrie's role as interim executive vice-president of cloud and enterprise. Phil Spencer, the boss of in-house games developer …

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Monday 31st March 2014 19:47 GMT erikj

Good for Guthrie

Stowing the usual snarkiness, it's good to see someone who can actually create modern software get a chance like this.

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Monday 31st March 2014 20:23 GMT Bob Vistakin

And in a shock twist, a name from the past is now in charge of Office

Welcome back Clippy!

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Monday 31st March 2014 20:24 GMT Vociferous

God I love Nigella!

It takes crazy mad skillz to randomly string together buzzwords and make it sound like actual language!

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Monday 31st March 2014 22:14 GMT Bob Vistakin

So Flop gets to ruin the phone business, again

This guy just keeps leaping about those infernal burning platforms

Mind you, the new Nokia "ConFuze" is sure to be a hit.

Q. It looks like a Windows phone. Does it run Windows phone apps?

A. No

Q. I hear it runs Android. Can I load apps from the Play Store then?

A. No

Q. It's from Nokia - it must run the decades of Nokia Symbian software that made them so big then?

A. No

Q. I see it has BlackBerry stuff on it - does it run BlackBerry software?

A. No

WTF? Well, you sure ConFuzed me...

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1. Tuesday 1st April 2014 10:28 GMT dogged
  
  Re: So Flop gets to ruin the phone business, again
  
  Earning your pay on this one, Bob?
  
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Tuesday 1st April 2014 09:59 GMT MJI

Looks like improvements

From what they had before, hopefully we will see a return to MS being wanted rather than tolerated

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Tuesday 1st April 2014 16:18 GMT Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

"More of the magic of Xbox to all form factors"

I can hardly wait already.

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