Mobile efforts stumbling - VP quits as Microsoft struggles with platform, partnerships, big enterprise wireless plan.(Paul Gross of the Mobility Group)(Company Business and Marketing)

Publication: eWeek

Publication Date: 25-JUN-01

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Microsoft Corp.'s head wireless executive is leaving his job, and it is certainly not because he finished it. Paul Gross, senior vice president for the Mobility Group, wants to spend more time with his family, according to company officials. But sources close to the situation report that Gross was encouraged to leave because various initiatives in the wire less division haven't taken off as quickly as they should have.

The much-touted smart-phone platform, code-named Stinger, has yet to appear. Partnerships with Ericsson AB have yet to produce results in the United States. And the Redmond, Wash., company's big wireless push in the enterprise, MIS (Mobile Information 2001 Server), has disappointed many wireless customers.

Gross, who will leave Microsoft July 6, joined the com pany in 1996. Previously, he was senior vice president of research and development at...

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