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Microsoft - Major Departure

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.

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