Microsoft's MSN leader is leaving
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft is looking for a new leader for its MSN division, the group at the center of the company's online efforts.
David Cole, the senior vice president in charge of the division, told employees in an e-mail message Friday that he plans to take a one-year leave of absence from the company at the end of April, leaving it unclear if he will return to Microsoft.
In the message, obtained by the Seattle P-I, Cole described the decision as personal, made on his own. He said he wasn't asked to leave by Chief Executive Steve Ballmer or by Kevin Johnson, co-president of the company's Platforms, Products & Services Division, under which MSN was placed during a company-wide restructuring last year.