● 02.05.10
●● Microsoft Exodus Continues as Another Vice President Jumps Ship
Posted in GNU/Linux at 8:53 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Mike Nash is the latest bad man to abandon Microsoft, but he will be moving to Amazon where the management is already filled with other former Microsoft executives
THEY are dropping like flies these days. At this current pace, there may be no-one left to manage Microsoft (with experience), whose profits keep declining [1, 2, 3, 4] and whose employees are mentioning layoffs again.
The latest corporate vice president who flees Microsoft will work on a Linux gadget, the Kindle.
Microsoft confirmed today that Mike Nash is leaving the company. The longtime Microsoft executive worked most recently as corporate vice president in charge of Windows 7 platform strategy.
This was mostly covered by the Microsoft bloggers [1, 2] and the Microsoft press [1, 2] (that which can only glorify or at last defend the criminal, convicted company). We saw Mike Nash in a variety of anti-competitive memos (Comes vs Microsoft), some of which we wrote posts about [1, 2, 3]. Nash was part of the groupthink of criminals and he will soon join many former Microsoft employees and executives who ended up in Amazon. There is a danger of entryism to be aware of and here is another new example of a former vice president from Microsoft entering another company:
Ed Fries, the Seattle video game pioneer who previously served as vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, has joined the board of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Canesta. The 45-year-old executive — who currently leads “World of Warcraft” figurine startup FigurePrints — said in a release that Canesta represents a “very unique opportunity” in 3-D sensing technologies.
It seems inevitable that Microsoft will implode, but the impact on other companies is worth examining. █
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