Microsoft Acquisitions Head Bruce Jaffe to Leave
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Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company bid $1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search & Transfer.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. --Â Microsoft Corp. may make more large acquisitions than it has done historically and become a more distributed company as opposed to moving key employees to its Redmond, Washington, headquarters, Chief Financial Officer John Connors said Monday.
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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that Jeff Raikes, the top executive in its business software division, will retire in September.
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Technologist takes reins Microsoft has drafted R&amp;D chief Satya Nadella to take over from Doug Burgham as head of the company's growing Business Solutions unitâ¦
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(InfoWorld) - A Microsoft executive who helped develop the company'sÂ new Zune music playerÂ and other products is leaving the company, Microsoft said Wednesday. Bryan Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft's entertainment business, "has decided to retire from Microsoft to pursue personal interests," the company said in a prepared statement. Lee reported to Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, who hired Lee in 2000. Bach said during his tenure Lee worked on development and deployment of the Xbox gaming system, the Windows XP Media Center operating system and the company's IP-television initiatives. "I want to extend my thanks to Bryan from the company and from me personally, for all of his contributions to Microsoft," Bach said. The Zune music player,Â introduced in November 2006, has been touted as Microsoft's challenge to the market-leading MP3 player, the iPod from Apple. Zune users can download music or videos from Microsoft's Zune.com Web site to the 30GB player. Unlike the iPod, the Zune is equipped with Wi-Fi. Lee will remain at Microsoft for a few more weeks to assist in the transition, the company said. J. Allard, corporate vice president of design and development, will take over full responsibility for the Zune. Joe Belfiore and Enrique Rodriguez, both corporate vice presidents who had reported to Lee, will now report to Bach.
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A Microsoft Corp. executive responsible for its newly launched Zune digital music player will leave the company.
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By Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post Staff Writer  AOL said yesterday that its chief financial officer, Stephen Swad, plans to leave the firm for a position at a private-equity firm.
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Executive holding three top slots resigns from ailing disk drive maker.
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Seventeen-year Microsoft Corp. board member William G. &quot;Gary&quot; Reed Jr. is leaving the position, reducing the group to nine members and trimming the long list of corporate boards on which the 65-year-old retired timber executive sits.
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Scott, who replaces fired CIO Stuart Scott, will run Microsoft's internal IT operations.
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MicrosoftÂ Chief Financial Officer (CFO) John Connors is leaving the software maker and will become a partner at Seattle area venture capital firm Ignition Partners LLC., Microsoft and Ignition Partners announced separately on Tuesday.ADVERTISEMENTWhite paper: Solutions to Address IT Control RequirementsLearn how BMC Software Solutions address requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 in this 20 page whitepaper!
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PeopleSoft Inc. on Tuesday said  Chief Executive and Chairman Dave Duffield has resigned from  the business software maker, which agreed to a $10.3 billion  buyout by rival Oracle Corp. earlier this month.
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Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company&#160;bid $1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search &amp; Transfer. Jaffe will retire on Feb. 29, the company said.
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(InfoWorld) - The executive in charge of leading Microsoft's battle against search giant Google is leaving the company to form his own venture, according to published reports. The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday that Chris Payne, corporate vice president of Windows Live search, plans to leave his job and form a company in Seattle. According to the report, his departure is part of a set of changes in the organization since Microsoft appointed former Ask.com executive Steve Berkowitz last year as senior vice president to lead its online group. Microsoft has declined to comment on reports of Payne's leaving, and his biography remained on Microsoft's Web site Thursday. According to the bio, Payne is in charge of "delivering the best search experience for customers and helping them find the information that is important to them," as well as overseeing Windows Live Shopping. Published reports did not make it clear if Payne plans to leave Microsoft for his own reasons or if the company is letting him go. However, Microsoft's search and online business has not been faring well against Google since Microsoft unveiled a plan in November 2005 to rename its search engine Windows Live Search and develop other Web-based services under that moniker in an attempt to take more of the online advertising market. The company at the time also announced a small-business hosted package called Office Live. Just last week in a conference call, financial analysts from UBS Investment Research saidÂ Microsoft's search business is "massively underperforming"Â against Google in both the incidence of search queries and in advertising revenue. They also predicted that the gap between the two companies in this market would not be closing anytime soon unless Microsoft takes drastic measures to ramp up its search strategy by striking deals with enterprise partners and finding legal ways to link its online offerings to its popular enterprise software products. Revenue from Microsoft's online properties also remained relatively flat over the last fiscal year despite the company's increased investment to bolster this part of its business. Before taking over Microsoft's Windows Live Search team, Payne was vice president of MSN.com, where he managed MSN Search, the MSN.com home page, MSN Autos, MSN Entertainment, MSNBC, Slate, and the MSN Channels properties.
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Bruce Jaffe, who spearheaded the software giant's acquisitions activity, will leave the company in February.
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Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O Chief  Financial Officer John Connors said on Tuesday he would leave  the world's largest software maker after 16 years to become a  partner at a Seattle-area venture capital firm.
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Christopher Payne will leave software giant to form own company, Microsoft says.