Microsoft - Major Departure
From Techrights
At the beginning of 2008, we assembled this little roundup. Here are some posts that came afterwards. Most careful attention was paid around 2009-10.
Contents |
2014
- Xbox Last: Chief Product Officer Abruptly Quits Microsoft
- Microsoft Vice President Blair Westlake Quits Microsoft
2013
- President of the Microsoft Office Division (Kurt DelBene) Leaves the Company
- Microsoft’s Xbox Chief Quits
- Microsoft is Collapsing (CIO Quits), Becoming Part of the Surveillance Industrial Complex Instead
- Microsoft Game Chief Quits, Former Microsoft Staff for Activism Against Microsoft
2012
- Craig Mundie to Leave Microsoft as More Products Die, Future Uncertain
- Only Fools and Horses… Run Windows on the Server
2011
- Powerset Founder and CEO Quits Microsoft Along With Visual Studio Senior Director and AstroTurfer
- Microsoft Corporate Vice President Linda Zecher Quits
- Empire Collapses: Senior Vice President of Microsoft Quits, Microsoft Axes Another Product
- Head of Microsoft Marketing Quits
- Microsoft Forced to Reveal More Layoffs, Offshoring; Sues Escapees
- Another Senior Vice President Quits Microsoft and Microsoft Sues Departing Executive
- Another Microsoft Vice President (Office 365/BPOS Chief) Quits Microsoft
- General Manager Quits Microsoft to Help Government Enter the Fog (But No Longer Microsoft’s)
- The Man Behind KINect Quits Microsoft
- Juniper Networks Gains Yet Another Executive (Vice President) Who Fled Microsoft
- Microsoft is Collapsing Based on Staff Exodus
- Microsoft President Bob Muglia Rumoured to Have Been Fired
- Quick Mention: Microsoft President Quits
- Another Microsoft Vice President Decided to Quit, Some Ex-Microsoft Staff Lands in Strategic Places
- Microsoft Australia Managing Director Decided to Move
2010
- Head of Microsoft Romania Quits, Entryism Revisited
- Bill Gates’ Successor Quits Microsoft!
- More People Including Vice President and Silicon Valley ‘Ambassador’ Quit Microsoft
- Microsoft President Quits, But is Nokia the Next Victim?
- Microsoft’s Director of Game Platform Strategy Quits, Could Further Pollute Amazon
- Microsoft IDC Managing Director is Leaving on September 24th, Another Vice President Quits
- Another Vice President Quits Microsoft: Birger Steen
- More Microsoft Staff Quits, Microsoft Shares Fall, Pequot Fraud Revisited (Whistleblower Compensated) (Rebecca Norlander)
- Another Vice President Leaves Microsoft, Yahoo! Still Suffers Microsoft’s Grip
- Robotics Chief Tandy Trower Left Microsoft, Entryism Still Eyed at Cisco, AOL
- Inside-trading Microsoft President Quits the Company, Allard Does Too
- Microsoft Vice President Quits, AOL and Glam Poisoned
- Marketing Executive and Microsoft Vice President Both Leave Microsoft
- Microsoft General Manager Quits After Two Decades, More Product Delays
- Microsoft Vice President Quits in China, Others Do Too
- General Manager of ‘Trustworthy’ Computing Quits as TPM Gets Cracked
- Microsoft Loses Another Vice President, Management Vacuum Alarms the Press
- Microsoft Exodus Continues as Another Vice President Jumps Ship
- Another Microsoft Vice President Abandons the Company
- Another Anti-GNU/Linux Microsoft SVP Quits the Company
- Microsoft’s Anti-Counterfeiting Chief Quits, Sales in the Gulf Dive 50%
2009
- Another Microsoft General Manager Quits the Company, Microsoft Refuses to Say Why
- Microsoft New Zealand Technology Officer Jumps Ship, Ending More Pretense
- Head of Microsoft Malaysia Jumps Ship
- Microsoft’s Chief Financial Officer Quits
- Top Windows Executive Quits Microsoft Upon Vista 7 Release
- Quite a Timing: Microsoft Senior Director Leaves
- Microsoft Lab Leader Leaves the Company, Olympic Committee at Risk of Microsoft Influence
- Another Microsoft Vice President Abandons Microsoft But Lands in Cisco
- Another Microsoft Vice President Quits, “aQuantive Exodus” Reported by Microsoft Blog
- Microsoft Member of the Board Quits the Company
- Microsoft Turncoat Quits
- Zune Management Abandons Still
- Xbox 360 Failure Rate Reportedly 54.2%, Microsoft Exodus Reported by Insider
- Microsoft UK’s Chief ‘Accomplice’ Jumps Ship
- Microsoft Executive Quits as Microsoft’s Startup Business Accelerator Shrinks
- Another Microsoft Vice President Jumps Ship, Employee Benefits Take a Dive
- Bing Executive Quits Microsoft, But Microsoft Colony is Built at eBay
- Microsoft Executive Quits, Another Microsoft Executive Penetrates Juniper
- Top-Level Microsoft Executive Quits, No Replacement to be Made Amid Xbox Exodus
- Microsoft CTO Jumps Ship
- Microsoft UK National Technology Officer Quits the Company
- Head of Microsoft Philippines Ditches the Company, More Layoffs Revealed (But Microsoft Withholds Details)
- Another Microsoft Product Officially Dies, More Layoffs, Tellme Founder Quits Microsoft
- Microsoft’s XBox Group Still Operates at a Loss, XBox Director Quits
- Microsoft Kills Live Labs, General Manager Quits the Company
- Microsoft’s Vice President of Spin Quits the Company
2008
- Another Microsoft Vice President Calls It a Day, Quits
- Another Microsoft General Manager Jumps Ship, But is This Really Good News? (Updated)
- Another Microsoft Vice President Quits
- Quick Mention: Microsoft Senior Vice President Jumps Ship
- Microsoft Guru Quits, But Where Will He Land?
- Microsoft Gags Own Employees to Put Customers’ Life at Risk
- Head of Microsoft Singapore Quits, OOXML Might be Among Causes
- Quick Mention: Microsoft’s President of Platforms & Services Quits
- How to Spin Executive Exodus as Wonderful News
Also see: Microsoft - Layoffs
