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Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft

posted by takyon on Friday June 19 2015, @03:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the doors dept.

"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.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 19 2015, @03:46AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 19 2015, @03:46AM (#198104) Journal
    You reckon Mark Penn will find a job at Google? Far from being a traitor, he was a very dedicated man [neowin.net].
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  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Friday June 19 2015, @03:52AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Friday June 19 2015, @03:52AM (#198106)

    he was a paid employee just like everyone else at microsoft and nothing more.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @04:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @04:03PM (#198295)

      You are correct, but I implore you to do the mental exercise of sed s/microsoft/google/ and at least recognize that the statements till holds.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday June 19 2015, @04:18AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday June 19 2015, @04:18AM (#198111)

    Nah, he started as a Clinton hack, spun the revolving door into the corporate world and while the current Truth says he is leaving to go into private equity I suspect he has heard the call of his Dark Master and will soon turn up back by her side hoping to feed from the public trough again.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @04:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @04:52AM (#198120)
      To be precise, I guess the "the call of his Dark Mistress" would be more appropriate this time.