Microsoft - Major Departure

At the beginning of 2008, we assembled this little roundup. Here are some posts that came afterwards. Most careful attention was paid around 2009-10.

2014

 * Xbox Last: Chief Product Officer Abruptly Quits Microsoft
 * Microsoft Vice President Blair Westlake Quits Microsoft

2013

 * President of the Microsoft Office Division (Kurt DelBene) Leaves the Company
 * Microsoft’s Xbox Chief Quits
 * Microsoft is Collapsing (CIO Quits), Becoming Part of the Surveillance Industrial Complex Instead
 * Microsoft Game Chief Quits, Former Microsoft Staff for Activism Against Microsoft

2012

 * Craig Mundie to Leave Microsoft as More Products Die, Future Uncertain
 * Only Fools and Horses… Run Windows on the Server

2011

 * Powerset Founder and CEO Quits Microsoft Along With Visual Studio Senior Director and AstroTurfer
 * Microsoft Corporate Vice President Linda Zecher Quits
 * Empire Collapses: Senior Vice President of Microsoft Quits, Microsoft Axes Another Product
 * Head of Microsoft Marketing Quits
 * Microsoft Forced to Reveal More Layoffs, Offshoring; Sues Escapees
 * Another Senior Vice President Quits Microsoft and Microsoft Sues Departing Executive
 * Another Microsoft Vice President (Office 365/BPOS Chief) Quits Microsoft
 * General Manager Quits Microsoft to Help Government Enter the Fog (But No Longer Microsoft’s)
 * The Man Behind KINect Quits Microsoft
 * Juniper Networks Gains Yet Another Executive (Vice President) Who Fled Microsoft
 * Microsoft is Collapsing Based on Staff Exodus
 * Microsoft President Bob Muglia Rumoured to Have Been Fired
 * Quick Mention: Microsoft President Quits
 * Another Microsoft Vice President Decided to Quit, Some Ex-Microsoft Staff Lands in Strategic Places
 * Microsoft Australia Managing Director Decided to Move

2010

 * Head of Microsoft Romania Quits, Entryism Revisited
 * Bill Gates’ Successor Quits Microsoft!
 * More People Including Vice President and Silicon Valley ‘Ambassador’ Quit Microsoft
 * Microsoft President Quits, But is Nokia the Next Victim?
 * Microsoft’s Director of Game Platform Strategy Quits, Could Further Pollute Amazon
 * Microsoft IDC Managing Director is Leaving on September 24th, Another Vice President Quits
 * Another Vice President Quits Microsoft: Birger Steen
 * More Microsoft Staff Quits, Microsoft Shares Fall, Pequot Fraud Revisited (Whistleblower Compensated) (Rebecca Norlander)
 * Another Vice President Leaves Microsoft, Yahoo! Still Suffers Microsoft’s Grip
 * Robotics Chief Tandy Trower Left Microsoft, Entryism Still Eyed at Cisco, AOL
 * Inside-trading Microsoft President Quits the Company, Allard Does Too
 * Microsoft Vice President Quits, AOL and Glam Poisoned
 * Marketing Executive and Microsoft Vice President Both Leave Microsoft
 * Microsoft General Manager Quits After Two Decades, More Product Delays
 * Microsoft Vice President Quits in China, Others Do Too
 * General Manager of ‘Trustworthy’ Computing Quits as TPM Gets Cracked
 * Microsoft Loses Another Vice President, Management Vacuum Alarms the Press
 * Microsoft Exodus Continues as Another Vice President Jumps Ship
 * Another Microsoft Vice President Abandons the Company
 * Another Anti-GNU/Linux Microsoft SVP Quits the Company
 * Microsoft’s Anti-Counterfeiting Chief Quits, Sales in the Gulf Dive 50%

2009

 * Another Microsoft General Manager Quits the Company, Microsoft Refuses to Say Why
 * Microsoft New Zealand Technology Officer Jumps Ship, Ending More Pretense
 * Head of Microsoft Malaysia Jumps Ship
 * Microsoft’s Chief Financial Officer Quits
 * Top Windows Executive Quits Microsoft Upon Vista 7 Release
 * Quite a Timing: Microsoft Senior Director Leaves
 * Microsoft Lab Leader Leaves the Company, Olympic Committee at Risk of Microsoft Influence
 * Another Microsoft Vice President Abandons Microsoft But Lands in Cisco
 * Another Microsoft Vice President Quits, “aQuantive Exodus” Reported by Microsoft Blog
 * Microsoft Member of the Board Quits the Company
 * Microsoft Turncoat Quits
 * Zune Management Abandons Still
 * Xbox 360 Failure Rate Reportedly 54.2%, Microsoft Exodus Reported by Insider
 * Microsoft UK’s Chief ‘Accomplice’ Jumps Ship
 * Microsoft Executive Quits as Microsoft’s Startup Business Accelerator Shrinks
 * Another Microsoft Vice President Jumps Ship, Employee Benefits Take a Dive
 * Bing Executive Quits Microsoft, But Microsoft Colony is Built at eBay
 * Microsoft Executive Quits, Another Microsoft Executive Penetrates Juniper
 * Top-Level Microsoft Executive Quits, No Replacement to be Made Amid Xbox Exodus
 * Microsoft CTO Jumps Ship
 * Microsoft UK National Technology Officer Quits the Company
 * Head of Microsoft Philippines Ditches the Company, More Layoffs Revealed (But Microsoft Withholds Details)
 * Another Microsoft Product Officially Dies, More Layoffs, Tellme Founder Quits Microsoft
 * Microsoft’s XBox Group Still Operates at a Loss, XBox Director Quits
 * Microsoft Kills Live Labs, General Manager Quits the Company
 * Microsoft’s Vice President of Spin Quits the Company

2008

 * Another Microsoft Vice President Calls It a Day, Quits
 * Another Microsoft General Manager Jumps Ship, But is This Really Good News? (Updated)
 * Another Microsoft Vice President Quits
 * Quick Mention: Microsoft Senior Vice President Jumps Ship
 * Microsoft Guru Quits, But Where Will He Land?
 * Microsoft Gags Own Employees to Put Customers’ Life at Risk
 * Head of Microsoft Singapore Quits, OOXML Might be Among Causes
 * Quick Mention: Microsoft’s President of Platforms & Services Quits
 * How to Spin Executive Exodus as Wonderful News

Also see: Microsoft - Layoffs‎