Microsoft Exodus Continues as Another Vice President Jumps Ship
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-02-05 13:53:14 UTC
- Modified: 2010-02-05 13:53:14 UTC
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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Comments
Dennis Murczak
2010-02-05 16:34:56
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-05 16:45:48
Needs Sunlight
2010-02-05 18:16:55
Dennis Murczak
2010-02-05 16:47:49
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-05 18:15:12
Needs Sunlight
2010-02-05 18:15:35
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-05 18:18:19
Dennis Murczak
2010-02-06 00:02:34
Having been involved in some relatively big-scale FOSS projects I know that things can, sorry, *will* go downhill rapidly if only one or two key persons in the hard core change their behavior to the worse. Let someone in who conflicts with the basic project principles or generally accepted practice. He will be considered an arse but kept in the team anyway because he gets work done, of which there is a lot.
Especially on projects with a deadline, he can prevent being kicked out by simply working hard, so he can continue poisoning the spirit of the project. Due to the others being pissed off, progress will increasingly feel like wading through molasses, and then there is that moment that feels like a container ship running onto a sandbank and leaking full of water. Last stop, baby!
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-06 00:24:18
A reader from Jordan reminded me some days ago that Microsoft does the same thing to LUGs.
Agent_Smith
2010-02-05 15:26:11