“The Microsoft executive in charge of closing the gap on Web search leader Google Inc is leaving the company, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday,” Reuters reports.
Reuters reports, “Chris Payne, corporate vice president of Windows Live search, is leaving Microsoft to start his own company in Seattle, said the source, who asked not to be identified. A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment.”
“Payne would become the second executive from Microsoft’s Internet arm in the last week planning to leave the company. Blake Irving, a Microsoft vice president who oversees the company’s AdCenter system that sells ads next to search results, plans to retire, Microsoft said,” Reuters reports.
Full article here.
Like rats from a sinking ship.
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Buh-bye: Senior Zune exec exits Microsoft – January 31, 2007
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When chairs fly: Another Microsoft exec jumps ship for Google – June 29, 2006
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Bill Gates to transition out of a day-to-day role in Microsoft – June 15, 2006
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sydney is right. no need to lower the tone in here.
Ignore Towertone. He’s just like his old buddy Ampar who used to post on here – unfunny and FULL OF SHIT.
uh huh.
macaday you are a bit harsh. sydneystephen has a point.
yeah. towertone. shut the f*** up. when did you ever say anything intersting?
hey sydney… you must be new, your pal towertone is an old trickster. there is a good chance that grok & d. & gorsh & macaday are towertone in disguise Its always a risk on here. i like your posts. well said. keep it up.
@ambulance
… i did wonder. 5 posts in support of mr towertone in a few minutes and its the middle of the night…
oh well, children will be children…
@everett
thanks for the tip!
@SydneyStephen,
It’s not the middle of the night here in the UK.
My comment was not in support of TowerTone but due to you coming across as a patronising snob who loves the sound of his own voice.
SydneySteve…I enjoy your posts.
Kids, go back to your rooms — no more fighting over politics!
The morale inside Microsoft has collapsed. Just read the mini- Microsoft blog. The rats are stampeding off the Micro-Tanic — how’s that for an oxymoron?
The fear at MS is palpable, but the Wall Street analysts refuse to admit it. They have their big institutional customers locked into dogs like Microsoft and Dell. They can’t make large volume switches — to AAPL, for example – without collapsing the price of the Windows related junk stocks and inflating the price of AAPL. These corrupt Wall Street bozos are lipsticking the rotting swine of the PC world while FUDding AAPL in order to gradually get the small investor/trader fools to pay for the switch over a long period of time. I plan to take advantage of the impending doom in Windows land, by rolling over all 401k plans at previous employers into an IRA and putting the assets into the undervalued AAPL. The – PCniks – pain is our opportunity.
Hey, I just woke up. Did I miss anything?
My comment was not in support of TowerTone but due to you coming across as a patronising snob who loves the sound of his own voice.
Cheerio-
D.ick H.ead
Oh shucks !
Well.
XP is still an OK OS.
Correct?
Who says history does not repeat itself. A mighty giant fell many years ago. That giant was the Roman Empire. Today that giant is microsoft. I cannot wait for it to happen. instead of the Dark Ages, we will have a new age of inlightenment
SydneyStephen has a good point on market fragmentation.
I don’t care who posts here or what they say, although I too am bored by longish posts, no matter who posts them. They invented blogs for a reason, you know?
SydneyStephen has a cock up his ass, that’s why he’s grumpy.
@SydneyStephen
Your posts are the funniest of all. I don’t know which is more preposterous: the fall of Microsoft, or Ballmer exiting Microsoft.
You have me rolling on the floor every time. Good stuff.
It is plain to see that the awesome success and critical raves for Zune and Vista show that Microsoft is an unstoppable force of quality and innovation that you Mac heads only wish Apple had. This is only the beginning of the golden age for our friends in Redmond.
The Wow starts Now.
Funy, Cubert, real funny….
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First off, I only post as TowerTone.
OK, guys, here’s the deal. Stevie got upset with me because someone posted something and I pointed out the irony in it. He took it upon himself to tell me how wrong I was for not being open minded. Again, the irony.
This is all from a post the other day. No big deal. Many of you on the left know how I am-usually lighthearted-but some things get me sideways.
Sorry to bore you others, but like many, I read these articles and MDN’s take, and the postings of the rest of y’all. And like many, some subjects interest me and I will join in while many don’t-and some just give me a humorous thought that I figure a few out there may enjoy.
So here’s to our new moderator, Stephen.
Good luck corralling diversity.
MacDailyNews Take: Like rats from a sinking ship.
A big sinking ship that will create an enormous suction on it’s way down, thus dragging anyone too close to it down with it.
@mike
that was interesting. you rock.
@grok
What is the address and phone number?
I hope it’s not a limited time offer!
Since Microsoft is hiring in droves, it should be easier than ever to get a job there.
The best way to help accelerate the demise of Microsoft is from the inside.
If you do get a job there, make short sighted decisions that will be fatal in the long term, write unmaintainable code, be extra sloppy to add more friction to their development processes, give bad feedback when they ask for some, do whatever you can to add sand to their gears.
Those who are there but are very dissatisfied, screw it up as much as you can before you leave and do the world a favor.
Any takers?
“. . . make short sighted decisions that will be fatal in the long term, write unmaintainable code, be extra sloppy to add more friction to their development processes, give bad feedback when they ask for some, do whatever you can to add sand to their gears.”
Not to nitpick (or Everett-pick, as it should be known), you mean like they’ve been doing as SOP since inception?
And SydneyStephen: Homophobic? I didn’t read a gender reference to the object in “Payne in the ass to his lover…” Analphilic (or phobic), perhaps.
Too many threads are making huge asssumptions?
Like those illegal immigrants that can’t afford those expensive Macs and end up causing global warming because they wire all of their money through identity theft and free clinics to terrorists funding lobbyists with pork projects.
MW: large. Oh yeah, it’s huge.
Twisted-
you’ve opened my eyes…..!
(actually, I just laughed, as intended, but be careful-there’s a new sherif in town, and he’s a itchin to break in his new rope)
Ballmer must have gone through a whole Dinning Room set of chairs this week!