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Microsoft Seeks Star Power
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| If Microsoft can't buy Yahoo!, it can at least buy its talent. Or former
| talent.
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/06/04/microsoft-yahoo-celebrities-tech-inter-cx_wt_0604msft.html
MSN Looks to Hollywood for New Site
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| Mr. Braun oversaw the development of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” the
| hit ABC reality series that features prominent product plugs.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/technology/04msn.html?ei=5087&em=&en=fa406db2cc002922&ex=1212811200&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1212768739-zMe3lQoTEYa+1cWRJkuZrw
Microsoft to 'Fix' Live Branding ... But Will First Muck Up MSN Again
http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=99375&News=1
More billions to be lost in this division.
Recent:
Microsoft's Google challenge remains
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| In the past seven years, the company has spent $17.6-billion on its online
| operations and suffered more than $2-billion in losses, Mr. Rosoff said.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080505.wrmicrosoftinternet06/BNStory/Technology
Where did Microsoft's ambition go?
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| Microsoft does need ambition on the web. It has been playing catch up there.
| It needs to change. Part of that change will come from a public recognition
| that it is losing badly, with a complete corporate focus on winning.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9954616-16.html
Microsoft's executive shuffle expected Thursday
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| The move will see three top executives--including two prominent outside
| hires--out of a job. Leaving the company are: Senior Vice President Steven
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| Berkowitz, the former Ask.com CEO who had been heading Microsoft's online
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| services unit, and Mike Sievert, the former AT&T Wireless executive brought
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| in to run Windows marketing. Both Sievert and Berkowitz had already seen some
| duties handed off to others at the company and their departures were largely
| expected.
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| Also leaving is Pieter Knook, longtime head of Microsoft's Windows Mobile
| unit.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9871715-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
MSN exec Bradford leaving for ad company
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| Bradford, a Microsoft corporate vice president, was most recently the
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| company's chief media officer, overseeing the MSN Media Network.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/134191.asp
Related:
Danny Thorpe quits the Windows Live development team
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| Danny Thorpe, one of the higher-profile hires Microsoft made to its Windows
| Live team, has decided to leave for greener pastures.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=806
Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits
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| In March, Blake Irving, the Corporate VP in charge of the Windows
| Live platform, announced his plans to leave Microsoft, effective
| this summer. Payne announced his resignation from Microsoft shortly
| after Irving made his announcement.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=407
Former Microsoft Search Chief Bill Bliss On Early Search Missteps
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| Bill's biggest regret? Not bypassing middle management that wasn't
| listening to him scream about the coming threat of Google and going
| right up to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
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http://searchengineland.com/070309-094930.php
Microsoft Search Leader To Leave Company
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| The Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the company's push into
| Internet search is leaving the software giant as the effort he
| helped launch loses ground against lead competitor Google Inc.
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http://online.wsj.com/preview_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117329976478329930.html%3Fmod%3Dyahoo_hs%26ru%3Dyahoo
http://tinyurl.com/2jran7
Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
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| Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows
| Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources
| close to the company.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296
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