Cyril Belikoff This is Me

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1. 1. www.busrep.co.za

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   Published on: 1/13/2008   Last Visited: 1/13/2008

   Belikoff, the head of Microsoft's information worker business in South Africa, will take up a high-profile position at Microsoft's head office at the end of February.Belikoff, who has been instrumental in launching products like Microsoft Office 2007, is to take up a position in Redmond as group product manager: office.
   
   The post will see him work with some of Microsoft's biggest users of information worker products in the US.Belikoff has spent more than 10 years at Microsoft SA, building the company's first ms.com/southafrica website.
   
   He was also instrumental in launching MSN in the country.Quite a number of South Africans are doing the country proud at Microsoft throughout the world.
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   As Bill Gates left the international stage this week with a bang, Microsoft South Africa's Cyril Belikoff silently joined the circus.

2. 2. www.itweb.co.za

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   Published on: 1/9/2008   Last Visited: 1/10/2008

   MS's Belikoff heads to Redmond
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   [ Johannesburg, 9 January 2008 ] - Cyril Belikoff, head of Microsoft SA's information worker business, will leave the local operation at the end of next month.
   
   The well-known evangelist is to take up the role of group product manager of Microsoft's Office line at the company's US headquarters, Microsoft SA says.The job will see him work with some of Microsoft's biggest users of information worker products in the US.
   
   Belikoff has spent over a decade with Microsoft SA, starting as a demonstrator in the community development arena.He was instrumental in the launch of MSN in SA and ran the communications sector business before taking his current position.
   
   Most recently, Belikoff assisted in the launch of products like Microsoft Office 2007 and Office Communications Server.
   
   Microsoft SA MD Pfungwa Serima says Belikoff's move is clear evidence of the world-class talent within the local subsidiary.
   
   "We at Microsoft SA have always been committed to developing our people to the fullest and offering our employees great global career opportunities.Although we are sad to see Belikoff go, we are very proud that we are able to export such great talent to our parent company."
   
   No replacement for Belikoff has been named, with Serima noting he will be difficult to replace as a key member of the local management team.

3. 3. www.itweb.co.za

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   Published on: 3/16/2007   Last Visited: 3/16/2007

   CYRIL BELIKOFF , INFORMATION WORKER BUSINESS GROUP EXECUTIVE, MICROSOFT SA MICROSOFT SA press release issued by:
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   [ Johannesburg, 16 March 2007 ] - The anticipated adoption of Ecma 376 standard on Office Open XML document formats, based on Microsoft contribution, as an international standard by the ISO/IEC will have immensely positive effects on customer choice and interoperability in the future, says Microsoft South Africa's Information Worker Business Group Executive, Cyril Belikoff.
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   "This is a very important concept because, if not implemented, billions of documents will be left out of the eco-system," says Belikoff.
   
   According to Belikoff, a standardised document format will make it easier for competing software companies to develop products that can work smoothly with one another.Products meeting the standard could be extremely useful to governments or other organisations concerned about interoperability.
   
   "For example, this can be illustrated through MindJet's endorsement of Open XML in its Mindmapper application, a compelling example of an ISV utilising the flexibility of the standard.
   
   "The Open XML File Format provides increased levels of compression and recovery of information.In addition, it provides the ability to access, manually or programmatically, different components of the document, ie formatting, content, styles, etc," continues Belikoff.
   
   Microsoft has garnered extensive industry backing for ECMA Open XML Formats from other major technology players.More than 750 developers have joined the Open XML Development Group, and many different government and private sector customers are now evaluating the specific benefits for their organisations.
   
   The release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and announcements from Novell and Corel that they support Open XML in their OpenOffice.org and WordPerfect offerings, mean the Open XML Formats will be used by millions of customers worldwide, across both Windows and Linux platforms.
   
   "The ECMA vote was a major milestone in furthering document interoperability.We believe customers will really appreciate the benefits that Open XML provides," comments Belikoff.