Talking with Microsoft's new Office chief - CNET

Culture Talking with Microsoft's new Office chief Stephen Elop, president of the business division, hasn't given up his iPhone, but says he has been pleasantly surprised to find plenty of innovation at his new employer. As a guy who spent a decade in Silicon Valley, Stephen Elop says he, too, had his doubts when he first heard about Microsoft's "software plus services" strategy. "The initial impre

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Ina Fried reviews, ""The initial impression of that, as an outsider, is 'Is that just a cheesy way of saying we are going to hold off as long as we can," said Elop, who was an executive at Macromedia and Adobe Systems before joining Microsoft earlier this year."

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Ina Fried interviews Stephen Elop: "These days, Elop justifies using the iPhone as him trying out competitive technologies, an effort that also has him playing with Google Docs and using a host of other Web 2.0 services. "I'm a believer you have to experiment with these things," Elop said."