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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Director Jumps Ship!!!

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Jon Shirley retiring from Microsoft board

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| Jon Shirley, the former Microsoft president and a member of the company's 
| board for 25 years, won't seek another term as a director, the company 
| announced this afternoon.   
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141395.asp?source=rss

Microsoft Director Jon Shirley Won't Seek Re-Election

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| He stayed on the board after stepping down from the executive ranks in 1990.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=MSFT:US&sid=a4WASw0CWkoE


Recent:

Microsoft Xbox Executive out Amid Reshuffling

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| Jeff Bell, corporate vice president of global marketing for Microsoft's
| Interactive Entertainment Business, is leaving the company at the end of the
| summer to pursue other interests after only two years at the company,
| Microsoft said Thursday. Summer in the U.S. typically means the months of
| June, July and August.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147044/microsoft_xbox_executive_out_amid_reshuffling.html


Microsoft India MD joins HP

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| In a major setback to IT giant Microsoft, its India Managing Director(MD)
| Neelam Dhawan has decided to call it quits and will join Hewlett-Packard
| (HP).
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http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3108755.cms


Microsoft`s 'Oslo' Loses a Leader, Plows On

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| Despite losing a key strategist for its “Oslo” effort, Microsoft preps a
| preview release for October.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsofts-Oslo-Loses-a-Leader-Plows-On/


Microsoft CEO Ballmer: I’m outta here in 9 or 10 years; as soon as my last kid
goes away to college

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| "In addition, Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes has said he
| would retire in September," McDougall reports. "Microsoft's mergers and
| acquisitions chief Bruce Jaffe stepped down at the end of February."
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http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/17465/


Windows exec Poole leaving Microsoft (Update)

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| Microsoft senior vice president Will Poole, a longtime Windows executive, is 
| retiring from the company, according to a report by ZDNet blogger Mary Jo 
| Foley this afternoon. No confirmation from Microsoft yet.  
| 
| Poole would be the latest executive to leave the company since Windows 
| Vista's launch. Others include Rob Short and Michael Sievert.  
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/136482.asp?source=rss


Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits As Redmond Exodus Builds

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| White did not provide a reason for his decision. To be sure, his position 
| could not have been an easy one. White's posts often elicited hundreds of 
| responses from Vista users complaining about the operating system's numerous 
| glitches and quirks.   
| 
| His departure also raises questions about Microsoft's ability to retain 
| talent in the Web 2.0 world.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| Earlier this year, Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes said he 
| would retire in September, to be replaced by former Juniper Networks chief 
| operating officer Stephen Elop.  
| 
| Microsoft's merger and acquisitions chief Bruce Jaffe stepped down at the end 
| of February. 
| 
| To boot, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will give up full-time duties at the 
| company in July. 
| 
| The departures highlight one of Microsoft's biggest challenges as a mature 
| company: attracting and retaining Silicon Valley's top talent. In its early 
| days, Microsoft could entice recruits with an entrepreneurial environment and 
| stock options that eventually turned secretaries into millionaires.    
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001276&subSection=All+Stories


Vista marketing chief to bid Microsoft adieu

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| Michael Sievert, Corporate Vice President for Windows Product Marketing, is 
| moving on, according to multiple sources of mine. 
| 
| It’s hard to make the case that Sievert, who was responsible for the 
| worldwide introduction of Windows Vista, isn’t being pushed for the 
| less-than-enthusiastic public perception of Microsoft’s latest version of 
| Windows. Even though Microsoft has moved 100-million-plus copies of Vista, 
| many consumers and businesses still consider the new release buggy, sluggish 
| and incompatible with existing software and drivers.     
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1158


Related:

Microsoft’s OEM chief defects to Lenovo

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| While so many of us Microsoft watchers were preoccupied with the hasty 
| departure of former Microsfot CIO Stuart Scott, the resignation of the 
| company’s OEM chief slipped right by most of us.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=999


Microsoft losing acquisition playmaker

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| In a previous life Jaffe was the CFO for Microsoft's MSN division, and also 
| had roles overseeing acquisitions related to Microsoft's consumer business, 
| groups like MSNBC and Microsoft Games.  
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http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9847376-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Microsoft Windows hardware leader takes a ‘vacation’

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| Veteran Softies are dropping like flies lately. The latest Microsoft exec to 
| leave is Jawad Khaki, Corporate Vice President of the Windows Hardware 
| Ecosystem.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1002


Danny Thorpe quits the Windows Live development team

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| Danny Thorpe, one of the higher-profile hires Microsoft made to its Windows 
| Live team, has decided to leave for greener pastures. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=806


Microsoft says Zune executive will leave company

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| Bryan Lee, corporate vice president at Microsoft's entertainment
| and devices division, also played a key role in shaping the Xbox
| game console business and the introduction of its Internet
| Protocol television software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6155200.html


Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits

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| In March, Blake Irving, the Corporate VP in charge of the Windows
| Live platform, announced his plans to leave Microsoft, effective
| this summer. Payne announced his resignation from Microsoft shortly
| after Irving made his announcement.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=407


Former Microsoft Search Chief Bill Bliss On Early Search Missteps

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| Bill's biggest regret? Not bypassing middle management that wasn't
| listening to him scream about the coming threat of Google and going
| right up to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. 
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http://searchengineland.com/070309-094930.php


Microsoft Search Leader To Leave Company

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| The Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the company's push into
| Internet search is leaving the software giant as the effort he
| helped launch loses ground against lead competitor Google Inc.
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http://online.wsj.com/preview_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117329976478329930.html%3Fmod%3Dyahoo_hs%26ru%3Dyahoo
http://tinyurl.com/2jran7


Microsoft Businesss Solutions Group's Burgum to resign

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| Microsoft Corp.'s Business Solutions group senior vice president Doug
| Burgum will resign, effective June 30, and leave the company to pursue
| other opportunities, the company said on Tuesday.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060912:MTFH70760_2006-09-12_16-35-37_N9C318839&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/h4coe


Database head to leave daily duties at Microsoft

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| Paul Flessner, who leads Microsoft's data storage and platform
| division, will step down from his daily duties after the new year.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6131496.html


Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign

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| Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows
| Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources
| close to the company.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296


Veteran Windows architect resigns from Microsoft

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| On the heels of a week of news of a number of Microsoft executive departures 
| and reshufflings, another has come to light. Rob Short, Corporate Vice 
| President for Windows Core, has resigned from the company.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1110


Juniper Networks exec to succeed Microsoft Business Division President Raikes

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| Another reason I consider the Raikes announcement timing odd: Why announce 
| Raikes’ departure a day after acknowledging the defection of your mergers and 
| acquisitions chief Bruce Jaffe? You could make the argument that Microsoft 
| wants to get all its defection/churn announcements out of the way at once. 
| But I’m not sure I’d look at things the same way, if I were one of the 
| company’s “image makers”….     
| 
| Microsoft also announced on January 10 that Bob Muglia, the Senior Vice 
| President in charge of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, is going to 
| move out of the Business Division and report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1101


Microsoft loses top executive in China

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| "Li Gong is currently exploring other career opportunities," Microsoft said 
| in a statement to News.com. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| In a September 2005 Business Week interview, Ballmer touted Gong as
| one of several key hires that Microsoft had made.
| 
| Most recently, Gong has served as managing director of Windows LiveC
| hina and as Vice President of Microsoft China R&D Group.
| 
| Gong's name came up in the case over Kai-Fu Lee, the top Microsoft
| executive whose hiring by Google sparked a multistate legal battle. 
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6149735.html
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