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Microsoft Partners Kicking Dirt On Vista's Grave
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| But this week at its Professional Developer Conference, Microsoft started
| talking about Windows 7, the successor to Vista, in a way that suggests it
| may be scaling back efforts to defend Vista's honor. Microsoft's recent
| launch of Windows 7-related blogs, and its removal of the word 'Vista' from
| the Windows Vista Team blog, also support the notion that Microsoft wants to
| put the Vista experience behind it.
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http://www.crn.com/software/211800614
If Windows Is a Dead End, What's Next?
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| If Windows 7 is more of the same, then maybe it's time to conclude that
| Windows is a technology dead end. Last spring, Gartner warned that Microsoft
| had to radically change Windows or watch it fade into irrelevancy. Windows 7
| is not that radical change.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/153292/windows_what_is_next.html?tk=rss_news
Microsoft is down over 6% today! Maybe the investors realise that Obama, unlike
McCain, is less likely to just let Microsoft commit its crimes (all well
documented). /sarcasm
Recent:
First black Microsoft MD quits
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| Microsoft South Africa MD Pfungwa Serima has resigned.
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2008/0806301330.asp?A=MOV&S=Career%20Moves&O=FPLEAD
http://tinyurl.com/6cjejs
Microsoft loses another ad executive
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| Evans is the latest departure from Microsoft's advertising ranks. In March,
| MSN ad sales executive Joanne Bradford announced she was leaving for a post
| at Spot Runner.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9942348-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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
MS Poll 08
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| I used to work in Microsoft India SMSG. In the past week, 10% of BMO
| quit. We've had people in EPG bail out in a hurry because the management
| does not care and is totally intellectually corrupt. Hiring is the
| exclusive domain of the GM who calls her cronies from HP to rape the
| company culture. I am done with MS India. DPE has a leader who is not a
| leader.
|
| When people talk about MS Poll and how OHI has improved they forget that
| the the problem is that 50% of the hires in India are about a year old
| and they're still drinking the kool ade. To them, the mere act of joining
| Microsoft is something to be proud of. They're still giddy with delight
| at getting the MS offer letter because for years they have been shat upon
| by the Indian SIs they come from during their tenure there.
|
| We've got a CVP who is preoccupied with seeing his face in the newspaper
| and magazines. To him, success is the number of publication impressions
| and not the well being of the employees.
|
| Stock price?? It's important, but with grade levels sucking in India, the
| grants are miniscule. Unless of course you are a partner or VP in which
| case you are laughing all the way to the bank while the employees drive
| revenue and sweat in the mines.
|
| This is the Microsoft India I left. I'm glad I am no longer part of it.
|
| [...]
|
| I have heard the same about India Dev Center also. Lot of people at lower
| levels (dev/dev-II) seem to be leaving the company and salary seems to be
| the primary motivation. In some cases, even the entry-level salaries at
| these "rival" companies is more than these people's (with 3-5 years
| experience) current salary.
|
| [...]
|
| How bad is things in Microsoft India? The GM Neelam Dhawan is fired and
| going back to HP. She is taking Rajiv Srivastava with her.
|
| [...]
|
| My friends and fellow Microsoft people, let me tell you that the
| situation in SMSG India is horrible. People are leaving and the
| leadership never meets the employees. We have box manufacturers trying to
| sell software. We have Chairman who I have not seen in 6 months in
| person. I have seen him on TV and the newspaper a few times. We have MD
| Neelam Dhawan who interviewed at Cisco 2 times and did not get a job
| there and is now going back to HP. The Country Manager for Xbox has left.
| BMO has almost 100% churn.
|
| [...]
|
| Weekly reporting !!!
|
| The Walmartization of Microsoft is now complete. I am in EPG and am now
| expected to give a weekly sales forecast. What crack is he smoking?
|
| [...]
|
| We are tired of scorecards and metrics and now Weekly Fucking
| forecasts????
|
| Will Kevin-the-used-car-salesman please leave the building?
|
| SteveB - what WILL wake you up?
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http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/03/ms-poll-08.html
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.
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| 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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