Microsoft loses three more cloud-savvy heavy hitters

From InfoWorld: Keeping track of the revolving doors to Redmond's executive washrooms is turning into a full-time pursuit.

Cloud visionary Ray Ozzie announced his departure in October (see Ray Ozzie's leaving Microsoft: What took him so long?). Cloud savvy Bob Muglia announced his retirement as president of the Server and Tools Division -- including the Azure effort -- a couple of weeks ago (see With Muglia gone, who will succeed Ballmer?). Last May, Robbie Bach left as president of the Entertainment Division. Xbox and Zune tech luminary J Allard left at the same time. Last September, Stephen Elop left as president of the Business Division, including Office. Brad Brooks, the head of Windows marketing to consumers, left last week.

Now in the past 24 hours we've seen details about the defections of three more heavy hitters.

First came news that Microsoft filed a lawsuit, then sought and received a restraining order, against Matt Miszewski. He's the former general manager of worldwide government in the Microsoft Dynamics group, where he guided "the business, technical, and architectural structure of Microsoft's offerings in the government industry." He left Microsoft at the end of December.

Last week, Salesforce.com announced that Miszewski was their new senior VP of global public sector, where he "will lead Salesforce.com's global public sector initiatives to help governments make their citizens more successful through the power of cloud computing." Microsoft claims that Miszewski violated his non-compete and confidentiality agreements by taking this new job, bringing with him detailed knowledge about Microsoft's Dynamics CRM products, and the future direction of Azure.

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