Staff exodus and closures

Summary: The wind is no longer in Microsoft's sails because key people are leaving

Microsoft's online/Web division seems to be in a state of disarray following the killing of "product upload" some days ago. It was a very bad week for Microsoft because of many cancellations and bad results [1, 2]. The online/Web division has fallen by another 17% in the past quarter, so sheer investments simply don't pay off. Now comes another blow with the departure of a man Microsoft raved about, as well as another:

Linden’s departure is noteworthy because he was a prominent hire at Live Labs.

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Another prominent member of the Live Labs team, design director Don Lindsay, left last month for a new job at Research In Motion.

Employee retention at Microsoft has been rather poor in recent years. But the company is still hiring anti-Linux people. ⬆

"The Internet? We are not interested in it."

--Bill Gates, 1993