Microsoft official 'broke rules' (Fires CIO)

[onehandle]

Source: BBC News

Microsoft says it has fired its chief information officer, Stuart Scott, for "violation of company policies", but declined to give details.

Mr Scott oversaw the use of computers, software and networks by the US software giant's 80,000 employees.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7083022.stm

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Isn't it funny that this is hardly mentioned here in the states in the MSM? Hmm.
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On edit, longer article in computer pub:

Microsoft fires CIO for violating corporate policies

Vendor announces Stuart Scott's termination in internal memo, without disclosing reasons

Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, announced Scott's termination in a memo sent to employees on Monday. Scott, who was unavailable for comment, was rumored to have been placed on administrative leave more than a month ago.

In response to an inquiry by Computerworld at that time, a spokeswoman from Microsoft's public relations agency said that Scott appeared to be working in his office as normal. Asked again about the administrative-leave rumors today, another spokeswoman from the agency said, "We had no personal knowledge of that at that time."

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9045788&intsrc=hm_list

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. I saw it in today's NY Times ... that's MSM n/t

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/business/07soft.html?ref=business

[onehandle]

5. Ah. I missed that one. Thanks. nt

[Ian David]

2. They gave him The Pink Slip of Death? n/t

[Cronopio]

3. "Violation of company policies"

So he refused to be an opportunistic greedheaded sociopath.

That's Microsoft for you.

[Doctor Cynic]

4. Was he using Linux? n/t

[SyntaxError]

7. stole my comment...

I was gonna saying that they found linux on his system.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Boy.

It must take one hell of a pr0n collection to get a CIO fired.

[LeftHander]

8. Was going to rollout Ubuntu corporate wide...

hehehe

[Neshanic]

9. He was a moderator on a "Vista Sucks" board.