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"gewg_" writes:

El Reg reports:

Ex-Nokia chief Stephen Elop is officially out of Microsoft. Redmond announced the cull of top execs at the software company [June 17], and Elop is the most high-profile victim of the bloodletting. Elop, Kirill Tatarinov, and Eric Rudder will be leaving Microsoft following a handover period at the firm.

It means that the management team, led by CEO Satya Nadella, has been reshuffled. Exec veep Terry Myerson will head a new wing of the biz, dubbed Windows and Devices Group (WDG). That division will bolt together Microsoft's current Operating System Group and MS Devices Group.

[...] Redmond added that its chief insights officer AKA attack ads supremo Mark Penn was also quitting the company to "pursue another venture". He'll stand down from his post in September.

The management cull comes just before the end of Microsoft's financial year.

[...] Meanwhile, top exec Scott Guthrie has retained his job heading up the firm's cloud and enterprise division. That said, changes (and--reading between the lines--possible job cuts) are afoot there, too.

[...] Here's the memo sent out to Microsoft staff on Wednesday morning.