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Microsoft Loses Two Key Executives
DIY News writes "Microsoft lost two key employees amidst major reorganization announced last month. One of them has led several MSN efforts and another who was a top developer for the Office unit. According to Microsoft, 'when you have a company of 60,000 employees, people are coming and going all the time.'"
On the first one, the summary of the story should be "There is one less executive after Microsoft reorganization" and should be self-explanatory. In the case of Office, everyone must remember it's Microsoft's ca$h cow (not Windows), now responsible for 1/3 of profit. Internally, someone didn't like the [current] progress or sales of Office.
In the case of the second one, that's 50-50 as to whether it's a push or not.
From the slashdot article "quoting" Microsoft: According to Microsoft, 'when you have a company of 60,000 employees, people are coming and going all the time.
But in this Slate article is the snippet that we continue to have the lowest turnover in the industry? , (as part of a question Bill Gates raised about continuing to make Microsoft an attractive place to work).
Seems these two statements conflict, both tailored to serve the spin necessary. So, what is it? Is Microsoft suffering from an exodus or do they truly have one of the lowest turnovers in the industry?
You can see how he sounds here:
http://www.axisofstevil.com/djballmerfresh.swf
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
However, Gasp, start.com and search.msn.com are standards compliant according to firefox, and, aside from some minor issues, pass W3C validation as well. I hope whoever takes over isn't going to have a lower priority on these standardization efforts...
At least they appear to render properly with firefox under GNU/Linux.