Newsmakers as a part-time professional baseball owner--he owns a minority stake in the Seattle Mariners--and a full-time software geek, Microsoft's Jeff Raikes is quite used to wearing more than one hat. Considering what's on his plate these days, that experience will come in handy. The 21-year Microsoft veteran is part of a coterie of top executives entrusted by Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer to get things done. The architect behind Microsoft's successful Office suite strategy in the late 1980s and 1990s, Raikes was put back in charge of Office as group vice president a couple of years ago and set the task of finding a way to kick-start the business.
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