More Moves at Microsoft ; 3 Top Executives Step Down

The revolving door in Redmond is spinning again.

This time, two top executives have left the company and a third will do so in a few months. They are:

* G. Michael Sievert, formerly corporate VP for Windows Product Marketing
* Steven Berkowitz, senior VP in the Online Services group
* Pieter Knook, formerly senior VP in the Mobile Communications Business

[Massacre]

hmm, wonder why the Vista guy stepped down ? Anyway hope everything is good.

[Shaka2K6]

Looks like 2008 is gonna be microsoft's worst year yet.

Sony on the other hand is having one hell of a year.

go Sony!

like.no.other

[Richdad]

Jumping of the sinking ship but yeah the top mangers always wish themselves to become MS by making there own bussines. Also MS employing method is top hard they want the person to be good in all field then only they appoint him. So jump off is rather eventual, look at Dr. Gabe Neweel he ahd been in MS for 11 yrs. But then he climbed top from Valve.

Anyways most 360 users wnat MS to capture new studio but they only look for good studios like Turn 10, Rare or Bungie then they buy it. But they should now change plan and take small aqusition Sony has aquired a lot of small studios.

[Adriokor]

Bungie is a a joke, they were nothing before halo and they have nothing without it, haha looking for "good" studios LOL

[The gaming GOD]

But he does make a good point.

How many people REALLY even heard of marathon let alone actually played it? BTW, Marathon is the game bungie made BEFORE halo.

And whatever games they make after halo is going to have "from the makers of halo" labeled to it just to try to give it a boost.

So in a way, they just MIGHT be nothing without Halo as Adriokor said

[SKUD]

Business is business.

[Pain]

Cash in and Run for the hill's end is Coming.

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13...

[BubblesDAVERAGE]

Ms only has one in house studio...in the form of rare...i wonder what is going on

[BLaZiN PRopHeT]

they have more than 1

[captainpwn]

YOU'RE RIGHT!

They have Bungie!!!

They have Bioware!!!

They have Bizarre!!!

....

In case you didn't get it...APRIL FOOLS!

[GiantEnemyCrab]

is correct. The also have Lionhead.

Now to the disageers and to the phony balogne sony bonies now you know.

[eagle21]

daddy mac will make u
JUMP, JUMP
microsoft's crap will make u
JUMP, JUMP

uh huh, uh huh...lol

[GiantEnemyCrab]

laugh out loud thinking of Mac's running on the backend of any companies network. Give me a break! Yes the yuppy douchebags who want to sync their iPOD easily will buy Mac's but when you grow up and become a big boy you will understand how much Business's rely on MS products. SQL and Exchange are 2 apps alone that Apple can't even touch.

Sinking ship my ass, but then again if I wore a blazer like the one in your picture fishhead I wouldn't expect you to know much.

[Sir Ken Kutaragi 2]

But when i see that word Micro$oft i feel SLEEPY!!!
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ;-D
BORING COMPANY
BORING BILL GATE$
BORING GAMES(???)CONSOLE xBox 360
BORING GAMES
BORING VISTA
BORING MP3 Player (ZUNE Anyone???)
BORING FANBOYS(No Sense of Humour,Arrogant,
Rude,Racist,Sexist...WELCOME TO xBox LIVE!!!) ;-D
(Yep! My Bubbles are going! I'LL GO OUT IN STYLE!!!) ;-D

[GiantEnemyCrab]

or are you a fckn loser? Go back to watching a Blu-ray movie you last place fishhead.

[TheTerminator]

jump the sinking ship!

[captainpwn]

People leave companies all the time. No need to make a news post out of it!

However, that doesn't change the fact that Microsoft will be sinking soon anyways...

[NinjaRyu]

2.5 seconds for fanboys to attack microsoft on the non open zone side of this Article.

[captainpwn]

We're gamers aren't we? It just so happens, however, that many gamers hate and despise Microsoft. You can't fight it, you might as well join it. I mean, in case you haven't noticed:

- Apple is making a serious come back with Mac's and PC's are quickly, and effectively dieing.

- Zune's haven't able to even come slightly close to directly competing with iPods.

- Windows Mobile is an inferior OS that's extremely rapidly being taken over completely by the iPhone.

- And yes, this is Sony's year.

Sorry man, but whether or not you're a gamer, Microsoft is going down.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

and @7.1 yeah yeah gamers hate the PC.. What games are on the Mac again??

Give me a break.

Zune has taken a nice chunk of the ipod marketshare while others (including Sony) have failed.

If this is Sony's year they better get to it, I mean we are in April already. I have a feeling people like you will be declaring this is going to be Sony's year on Dec 31 2008.

Anybody who think MS is a sinking ship needs to seriously understand how big and deep MS and it's technology goes and how much of the market they own in the business sector. You play the PS3 and have a Mac at your house and suddenly you are an expert.. LOL

[NinjaRyu]

are you sonyfans that scared of Microsoft that you guys gotta attack every article that has even their name in it?

[captainpwn]

We gotta capitalize on their failure and just keep hitting where they're soar.

XBOX IS DONE
PS3 IS #1

Vista is out of luck
compared to Mac it sucks

Zune is plain trash
the iPod Touch kicks @ss

Windows mobile in inferior
iPhone is superior!

[Harry190]

leave the boat.seriously,i'm only joking.

[bigjclassic]

But its not just gamers, the majority of techies and digital artist hate MS as well.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Like I said above. Gamers hate the PC? Are you serious?

What is the steller lineup of Mac games?? Fanboys hate MS, not gamers.

[ElementX]

I've never had problems with MS products except 360. I didn't get a RROD but I had some sort of video error and MS shipped me a new one and I received it within a week.

MS products are compatible with 99% of hardware. That's good in the IT industry because if you buy a component, you know it'll probably work. I go to school for computer networking and support and we learn Linux as well, but MS products are easy to work with.