____/ Jerry McBride on Thursday 14 February 2008 11:48 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft's executive shuffle expected Thursday
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>> | The move will see three top executives--including two prominent outside
>> | hires--out of a job. Leaving the company are: Senior Vice President
>> | Steven Berkowitz, the former Ask.com CEO who had been heading
>> | Microsoft's online services unit, and Mike Sievert, the former AT&T
>> | Wireless executive brought in to run Windows marketing. Both Sievert and
>> | Berkowitz had already seen some duties handed off to others at the
>> | company and their departures were largely expected.
>> |
>> | Also leaving is Pieter Knook, longtime head of Microsoft's Windows
>> | Mobile unit.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9871715-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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> Hmmm... are they being "put out" or are they fleeing like everyone else?
It's a chain reaction, I think. It's not over yet. Microsoft is said to be
collapsing with people jumping from ship to ship not even realising what the
vancant (ditched) chair actually involves in terms of responsibility and
technical agenda. Microsoft even brought some executives from _outside_ the
company -- people without a clue at all. Even the CTO has come from the paper
industry!
In many ways, Microsoft is the bigger Novell. Both have legacy products on
which they can't rely for long (it's NetWare in Novell's case). Watch them
perish while they litigate just like SCO with UNIX, which it _does not_ even
own by the way.
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