At the very least, lowering of morale - execs / long time developers leaving definitely will lead to a good number of people re-thinking their careers @ MS. Living out here near Redmond, our company is getting quite a few resumes from former MS folks - some of these folks have been there for over 1/2 a decade... Some folks that were interviewed are simply leaving coz they think there are better things out there and their 1/2 decade or more spent at MS is making them more valuable outside that at MS and earning them more $$.
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At the very least, lowering of morale - execs / long time developers leaving definitely will lead to a good number of people re-thinking their careers @ MS. Living out here near Redmond, our company is getting quite a few resumes from former MS folks - some of these folks have been there for over 1/2 a decade... Some folks that were interviewed are simply leaving coz they think there are better things out there and their 1/2 decade or more spent at MS is making them more valuable outside that at MS and earning them more $$.
It actually doesn't: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .microsoft.com%2Fwindows%2Fie%2Fdefault.mspx&chars et=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&verbose=1