Key MS exec resigns amidst Vista doubts
updated 12:35 pm EDT, Wed September 6, 2006
Key MS exec resigns
Microsoft executive Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Core Operating System Division has resigned as the software giant's Windows Vista operating system heads toward completion, and will take up a position at Amazon.com. Valentine was known for his ability to galvanize Windows-related software development in the critical final stages, and his resignation casts further doubt upon the viability of Microsoft's planned October release to manufacturing partners of Windows Vista, according to Electronista. Although Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is a major improvement over Beta 2, according to Windows advocate Paul Thurrott, serious issues remain in the current Vista beta with interface consistency, unnecessarily strict security controls, and other software inadequacies that threaten the success of the operating system's January 2007 launch.
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Yikes...
Not a good sign for investors and consumers. I still think MS is heading the way of IBM: less focus on product, more on services.