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
Oh my god. They are dropping like flies. What are they seeing that makes them
escape? Gates and Allchin retire|d as well.
Last month:
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 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
Not so long ago:
Microsoft's China boss quits to head NBA in China
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| Microsoft said its global vice president, Zhang Yaqin, would take over as
| acting Greater China chief while it sought a permanent replacement.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9595_22-6208825.html
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’s open source chief takes on Windows server marketing
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| The change comes amid a long-building storm that exploded in May, when the
| company said that Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100807-microsoft-open-source-windows-server.html
Related:
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
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| Lucovsky said Ballmer threw a chair across the room and shouted:
| "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury
| that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to
| fucking kill Google."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer
Ouch: Goodbye Microsoft; Hello, Google
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| Google continues to poach from Microsoft -- that's not really news.
| But it's relatively rare to see Microsoft employees using their
| Microsoft-sponsored TechNet blog space to diss Microsoft on the way
| out the door.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=380
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
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
Evangelist Gartenberg back to being analyst
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| After only three weeks at Microsoft as an "evangelist," Michael
| Gartenberg is returning to his old job as vice president and
| research director at JupiterResearch.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6165381.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Microsoft's Futile Attempt at Search Engines
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| An article in Seattle-Post Intelligencer displays a graph showing the
| growth and number of queries of Google and Microsoft, as well as Yahoo.
| The most apparent conclusion that can be drawn from this picture is
| that Microsoft can not start a battle with Google until it defeats
| Yahoo first. Bill Gates? company trails Yahoo by nearly a billion
| queries. Yahoo has also shown growth over the past couple of years,
| while MSN/Live search has stagnated and floundered under 700 million
| queries.
|
| Microsoft's inability to gain a significant market share, despite a
| growth in the market of over 3 billion queries in the past two years,
| just typifies how the company has shown little inability to shoo
| away the gnat that has become a real nuisance in Google.
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http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/03/07/microsofts_futile_attempt_at_search_engines.html?partner=rss
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