● 07.12.09

●● Microsoft Executive Quits as Microsoft’s Startup Business Accelerator Shrinks

Posted in Microsoft at 7:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Another notable departure follows large-scale cuts at Microsoft

A DAY AGO we wrote about some more shuffles inside Microsoft’s executive ranks, which quickly erode [1, 2, 3]. Here is the latest executive to leave Microsoft and some background information:

The Startup Business Accelerator, under chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie, was among the groups hit hard by the company’s latest round of cuts. The MSN Direct and .Net Micro Framework teams, other parts of the startup group, were also affected by those cuts.

GNU/Linux might not need to pull off anything exceptional; it need only wait patiently for Microsoft to take itself out of business. GNU/Linux is rapidly destroying Microsoft's margins. █

“Microsoft can’t charge $80 or $100 when there’s Linux for free on netbooks,” Rosoff said. On regular PC sales, Microsoft’s profit margins are typically about 70 percent to 80 percent, he explained.”

–Microsoft Press

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