● 12.19.08

●● Another Microsoft Vice President Calls It a Day, Quits

Posted in Finance, Microsoft at 6:13 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

It’s (at least) the third major departure this week [1, 2].

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It must be that time of year, because we have another Microsoft executive departure to report: Joe Peterson, a corporate vice president who has been involved in everything from Internet Explorer to MSN to Windows, is retiring after 13 years with the Redmond company.

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When is Steve Ballmer leaving? According to this new report, Microsoft is likely to have “negative earnings”.

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As the year winds down, financial analysts are predicting that Microsoft will pre-announce negative earnings for the first time since 2000 because of a flat PC market.

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As Tim Bray calls it, “tough times.”█

“Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.”

–Richard Stallman

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