Microsoft Shuffles More Executives; No Drama this Time

Now that’s more like it.

Unlike the sudden and unexplained departure of Martin Taylor, which was an atypical personnel move for Microsoft in every conceivable respect, the announcement of several executive reassignments that surfaced this evening makes a lot of sense and doesn’t deviate from the written and unwritten rules of the corporate-communications textbook to which Microsoft’s corporate-image guardians rigidly adhere.