Lees will oversee the corporate strategy team and the corporate development team, with a “holistic approach” to mergers, acquistions and other moves, the source said.
Lees’ new post “had nothing to do with the Sinofsky situation,” the source said, referring to the unexpected departure of Windows chief Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft on Monday. He then took over the partnership between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft, the source said. Lees was originally head of the Windows Phone division, then was shuttled into a separate advisory role by chief executive Steve Ballmer. The app’s release also explains why Andy Lees has been named Microsoft’s new head of corporate development and strategy, a post that he assumed a month ago, according to a source close to Microsoft.
“As the Barnes & Noble leader of the Microsoft Alliance, you will be responsible delivering on our contractual commitments on Windows 8 applications, Cloud, commerce, content integration with the Microsoft ecosystem and for defining and delivering on product strategy of Nook integration with Microsoft ecosystem including Windows, Office, Bing… You’ll lead a cross functional team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products on a Windows mobile 8 platform.” Lees’ Work With Barnes & Noble Is Done In September, Barnes & Noble began advertising for a “director of engineering, Windows 8” posting, that would lead the B&N app. But the release of the app was signaled months ago. To date, little has been said about Microsoft’s $300 million investment into Barnes & Noble, which took place last June, to form a subsidiary company that would be jointly owned by both B&N and Microsoft. (That technique, also called skeuomorphism, had been widely adopted by Apple, which also uses a paper-like background inside its iBooks app.) Both Apple and B&N’s Windows 8 app also use a “bookshelf” motif to display the books and magazines that the user has purchased, although only Apple actually places the books on a simulated shelf. The application uses what B&N calls its first implementation of a “paper” interface, with a texture that mimics the look of real paper. The Nook app is downloadable from the Microsoft Store for Windows 8 and Windows RT, but not Windows Phone. Select Trackers to see which trackers the site uses and how many were blocked.Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have finally delivered a Nook e-reader application for Windows 8 and Windows RT, giving Microsoft’s Surface tablet a dedicated bookstore to compete with tablets and e-readers from Apple, Amazon, and Google. If you’ve turned on tracking prevention, you can see trackers that were blocked on individual sites. Under Tracking prevention, select Off from the drop-down menu. Select View site information on the side of the address bar. Go to the site you want to add as an exception for tracking prevention. You can also create an exception directly from the site.
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