Report: Windows Live exec leaving
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
A key executive in Microsoft's Windows Live online group plans to leave the company, according to an Internet report by a veteran journalist who tracks the Redmond company. Blake Irving, a Microsoft corporate vice president whose responsibilities include the build-out of the company's online data centers.
Irving is "the last of the high-level VPs from the old MSN who is still in a significant position of power," said Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Kirkland-based research firm Directions on Microsoft. If Irving does plan to leave, it could be viewed as part of the ongoing reshaping of the Windows and Windows Live executive teams under Kevin Johnson, the president of the Platforms and Services Division, Rosoff said.