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[News] [Rival] More Head Shuffles in Microsoft After XBox360 Disasters

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] More Head Shuffles in Microsoft After XBox360 Disasters
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:45:48 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Microsoft Hires EA Executive to Run Xbox Live

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| Moore left the company shortly after Microsoft acknowledged that some Xbox 
| 360 consoles have a hardware problem. Microsoft took a more than US$1 billion 
| charge related to fixing and replacing the consoles.  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070809/tc_pcworld/135724


Related:

XBLA's Ross Erickson leaves Microsoft, heads over to Sierra Online

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| Of course, this follows XBLA General Manager Greg Canessa's
| departure a couple weeks back. While having two of the most
| senior Xbox Live Arcade execs jump ship in a two week time 
| span after a particularly long string of subpar Wednesdays
| -- nothing, Ms. Pac-Man, Lumines add-on, nothing, Root Beer
| Tapper, Paperboy, nothing -- might seem to imply certain
| disaster, Ross insisted that he and Greg's decided to
| leave under entirely different circumstances.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/20/xblas-ross-erickson-leaves-microsoft-heads-over-to-sierra-onli/
http://tinyurl.com/25s6he


XBLA main man jumps ship

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| In somewhat surprising news, Greg Canessa, the big guy behind
| Xbox Live Arcade, has left the Microsoft compound for PopCap Games.
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http://www.destructoid.com/xbla-main-man-jumps-ship-29716.phtml


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

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