Microsoft Board Cut in Size as a Director Retires
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on  Monday that William Reed, one of the company's longest-serving  directors, had decided to retire and would not be replaced,  reducing the size of the company's board from 10 members to  nine.
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Microsoft Corp  announced a  management shake-up at its loss-making online division on  Thursday, thrusting an outsider into a prominent position ahead  of a proposed merger with Yahoo Inc .
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By Damon Darlin  Michael Dell has taken back the leadership of the computer company he founded, replacing Kevin Rollins after more than a year of mounting problems at Dell.  The company announced Wednesday that Rollins had resigned as chief executive and as a director.
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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Jeff Raikes, the president of Microsoft's Business Division, plans to retire in September, the company said on Thursday.
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The San Diego-based maker of data storage products said in a statement that it plans to cut 145 regular and temporary personnel worldwide, and will incur restructuring charges of between $5 million and $7 million.
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SEAN HARRIGAN, THE head of the board that oversees the California Public Employees Retirement System, was removed from that post Wednesday amid an ongoing and misguided effort to redirect the role of the state pension fund to aggressively push an agenda
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Venture capitalist who helped launch the computer maker in 1982 will step down in November.
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By Saul Hansell  There is a lot about the way Microsoft has run its Internet business that Steve Berkowitz wants to change. But he is finding it more difficult than he expected.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) has closed a studio operation that made some of its sports video games, cutting 76 positions, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
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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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TechWeb - The No. 1 PC maker is in the midst of a major shake up that started when its Chief Executive Kevin Rollins quit in January.
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Christopher Payne will leave software giant to form own company, Microsoft says.
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Microsoft Corp.   founder Bill Gates said on Thursday that over the next two  years he will ease out of a day-to-day role at the company he  built into the world&#039;s biggest software maker.
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Paul Otellini, a 30-year Intel Corp. veteran who oversaw the launch of the Pentium processor in the 1990s, will replace chief executive Craig Barrett when he steps down to become chairman in May, the semiconductor giant's board of directors announced Thursday. -AP
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The departure of Peter Moore from Microsoft&#39;s Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) has raised several questions. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant made the announcement on Tuesday, saying only that Moore, a corporate vice president who oversaw the Xbox, wanted to move back to the Bay Area for &quot;personal reasons.&quot;
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The head of MicrosoftÂs division that makes specialized software for small and midsize businesses is stepping down.