"The Real Reason Microsoft's Robbie Bach Was Fired"

Release Date 26 May, 2010 in The Business Insider

 
   

Microsoft Shakeup Ballmer's Last Gasp?

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 26 May, 2010
CEO revamps hardware unit in what may be final chance to turnaround mobile and entertainment business. By Paul McDougall Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put his ...

Microsoft's Robbie Bach: The Courier Tablet "Wasn't A Device"

Forbes (blog) - 26 May, 2010
The Courier was a mythical folding tablet, that leaked to tech blogs in the past year. While just a prototype, the leaked early marketing materials for the ...

Microsoft to restructure its top management

Economic Times - 26 May, 2010
26 May 2010, 1653 hrs IST, PTI NEW YORK: Announcing a major shake-up in its management structure, software giant Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said that its ...

Ballmer: Robbie Bach just wanted to retire

Computerworld - Sumner Lemon - 26 May, 2010
IDG News Service - The management shakeup at Microsoft's entertainment and devices division doesn't reflect dissatisfaction with the ...

Microsoft departures shake up entertainment group

BusinessWeek - Nancy Gohring - 26 May, 2010
Two longtime Microsoft Entertainment and Devices division executives are leaving the company in a move that will give CEO Steve Ballmer ...

Management Shake Up At Microsoft Mobile Division

InformationWeek (blog) - Ed Hansberry - 26 May, 2010
Robbie Bach has headed the entertainment and devices group in recent years and is credited with coming up with a successful business model for the X-Box, ...

It's game time for Ballmer

TODAYonline - 26 May, 2010
Microsoft disclosed a series of management changes yesterday that will alter the shape of its unit responsible for products like the Zune music player and ...

Time to rearrange, plus let in light

Seattle Times - Brier Dudley - 26 May, 2010
Robbie Bach ran the hippest business at Microsoft. Not just because his lieutenants wore jeans and hoodies instead of khakis and polo shirts. ...

Bach departs amid Microsoft shake-up

Financial Times - Richard Waters - 26 May, 2010
Microsoft yesterday ann-ounced that Robbie Bach, its longest-serving top executive and head of its entertainment and ...

Microsoft shakes up game and mobile device division

AFP - Glenn Chapman - 26 May, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO â€" Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is replacing top executives at its gaming and mobile devices division, which has stumbled in the ...

Microsoft axes man behind Xbox

Independent - Stephen Foley - 26 May, 2010
Robbie Bach, the Microsoft executive who launched the Xbox, has been pushed out as head of the gaming and mobile devices division after the ...

J Allard's goodbye note: 'No chairs were thrown'

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - 26 May, 2010
Microsoft Chief Experience Officer J Allard sent out a goodbye note of his own on May 25, the date that ...

Microsoft restructure to get back in game

Times Online - Mike Harvey - 26 May, 2010
Microsoft has moved to shake up its struggling consumer devices division as the company tries to keep up with Apple and Google in the fast-growing ...

Microsoft shakeup shows Windows 7 Phone is in deep trouble

Computerworld (blog) - 26 May, 2010
The retirement of Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft Entertainment and Devices division is a sign that Microsoft knows what the rest of the world has known ...

Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Device division, steps ...

New York Daily News - Nick Klopsis - 26 May, 2010
Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, stepped down Tuesday as part of a department-wide reorganization ...

Microsoft's Bach Leaves as Head of Games, Mobile

BusinessWeek - Adam Satariano - 26 May, 2010
May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. said Robbie Bach will retire as head of the division that runs the company's Xbox game and ...

Making sense of Microsoft's reorg

CNET - Ina Fried - 26 May, 2010
Although Microsoft reorganizes itself in some way on a nearly annual basis, the departure of both Robbie Bach and J. Allard is clearly a big ...

Windows Phone chief and Xbox brain exit Microsoft

Register - 26 May, 2010
If there's a job more thankless than leading Microsoft's perpetually loss-making online business operations, it's running the Redmond unit that handles ...

Robbie Bach, J Allard Leave Microsoft

Wired News - Chris Kohler - 26 May, 2010
Two of the people who spearheaded the Xbox project within Microsoft will leave the company this year, it said Tuesday. ...

Microsoft consumer chief Robbie Bach steps down

MarketWatch - Benjamin Pimentel - 26 May, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said Robbie Bach, the executive in charge of such products as ...

Bring Back Bill Gates

Forbes (blog) - 26 May, 2010
This morning the Wall Street Journal reported that J. Allard chief technology officer of the Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices group was going to leave ...

Robbie Bach hits the escape button at Microsoft

Los Angeles Times (blog) - 26 May, 2010
Longtime Microsoft executive Robbie Bach announced Tuesday his retirement in the fall from the Redmond, Wash., company where he has worked for the last 22 ...

Microsoft Implodes Troubled Hardware Unit

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 26 May, 2010
CEO Steve Ballmer will exert more influence over Entertainment and Devices Division as company veterans Bach and Allard head for the exit. ...

Microsoft top entertainment executives step down

The Associated Press - 26 May, 2010
REDMOND, Wash. â€" Microsoft is announcing the departure of the president and another key executive from the group that makes its Xbox 360 game system, ...

Beyond Bach's departure: What else changed today at Microsoft?

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - 26 May, 2010
Most Microsoft watchers are focused on the depatures of President Robbie Bach and Chief Experience Officer J ...

Microsoft Shakes Up Its Consumer Products Unit

New York Times - Ashlee Vance - 26 May, 2010
The departure of Robbie Bach will give the chief, Steven Ballmer, a more hands-on role in gadgets and games. Microsoft disclosed a series of ...

Microsoft shakes up entertainment unit; Bach out

CNET - Ina Fried - 26 May, 2010
Microsoft shook up its entertainment and devices unit on Tuesday, with unit President Robbie Bach and Chief Technology Officer J. Allard both ...

FP Tech Desk: Robbie Bach out at Microsoft as part of major restructuring

Financial Post - Matt Hartley - 26 May, 2010
Microsoft Corp. is shaking up the leadership atop the company's Entertainment & Devices division as the world's ...

Microsoft: Device Division Execs Bach, Allard Stepping Down

Barron's (blog) - Eric Savitz - 26 May, 2010
In a major shake-up, Microsoft (MSFT) this morning disclosed a major management shake-up at its Entertainment and Devices Division. ...

CEO Ballmer's e-mail on Microsoft's entertainment and devices shake-up

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - 26 May, 2010
On May 25, Microsoft announced that Robbie Bach, the President of the company's Entertainment & Devices division ...

 

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