Re: Meet MSFT's new CEO: S. "Trojan" Elop aka "The Butcher of Nokia" aka...
Actually, Elop has quite an impressive resume - Pre Nokia jobs:
Elop was a director of consulting for Lotus Development Corporation - Went from #1 to aquistion by IBM.
CIO for Boston Chicken in 1992, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1998.
In the same year, he joined Macromedia where he held several senior positions, including CEO from January 2005 for three months before their acquisition by Adobe Systems.
Then president of worldwide field operations at Adobe, tendering his resignation in June 2006 and leaving in December.
After that he was the COO of Juniper Networks for exactly one year from January 2007-2008.
From January 2008 to September 2010, Elop worked for Microsoft as the head of the Business Division, responsible for the Microsoft Office and Microsoft Dynamics line of products, and as a member of the company's senior leadership team. It was during this time that Microsoft's Business Division released Office 2010, with ribbons being implemented throughout Microsoft Office.
So, every company where he's worked longer than a year has either ended up bankrupt or swallowed by another company, with the exception of Microsoft, where he oversaw the end to end implementation of the Ribbon into Office.
Now that he's back at Microsoft, the question is, will he be there longer than a year this time, and if so, just how badly Microsoft will fare this time.