“Keeping track of the revolving doors to Redmond’s executive washrooms is turning into a full-time pursuit,” Woody Leonhard reports for InfoWorld.
“Cloud visionary Ray Ozzie announced his departure in October. Cloud-savvy Bob Muglia announced his retirement as president of the Server and Tools Division — including the Azure effort — a couple of weeks ag. Last May, Robbie Bach left as president of the Entertainment Division. Xbox and Zune tech luminary J Allard left at the same time,” Leonhard reports. “Last September, Stephen Elop left as president of the Business Division, including Office. Brad Brooks, the head of Windows marketing to consumers, left last week.”
Leonhard reports, “Now in the past 24 hours we’ve seen details about the defections of three more heavy hitters.”
• Matt Miszewski: Former general manager of worldwide government in the Microsoft Dynamics group
• Dave Thompson: Corporate VP of online services, in charge of Office 365 and Microsoft’s business foray into the cloud
• Alek Kolcz: Sole Principal Scientist at Bing
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