Microsoft's DevDiv Executive Has Quit (Is GitHub on the Chopping Block?)
Many people have jumped ship lately. Some got sacked. The latest: Microsoft’s executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns
Microsoft is losing another veteran executive. Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft’s developer division (DevDiv), is resigning from the software giant after 34 years. Liuson spent the past 12 years leading Microsoft’s developer business, during a period Microsoft focused more on open source projects and acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion.
Microsoft's media operative Jordan Novet is already trying to sugar-coat this, as do Microsoft-sponsored "news" sites like GeekWire (they try to twist a quitting as "retirement"). She is "resigning from the software giant after 34 years", not retiring.
"She also took on oversight of GitHub’s revenue, engineering and support functions following the resignation of former GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke last year."
Now she's gone!
GitHub loses so much money (it always did) that Microsoft 'hid' it last year [1, 2] and painted it with "entertainment only" (slop) brush.
The above departure bodes very poorly; does Microsoft accept it lost control (or "mindshare") over developers and spending billions (in "funny money" like shares) on some worthless site that loses money cannot change this? CodePlex all over again? █