Former Microsoft exec returning after Yahoo stint
Update at 5:40 p.m.: Microsoft has confirmed his return.
A prodigal son is returning to Microsoft.
Scott Moore, who left Microsoft four years ago for Yahoo, is returning to Redmond as U.S. executive producer to lead MSN's content and programming strategy, AllThings D reported Friday.
Microsoft confirmed his re-entry in an e-mail Saturday.
Moore, who had been heading Yahoo's media operations, left that job in November. At the time, Yahoo said that Moore was leaving to "pursue other opportunities." During his time-off, AllThingsD reported, Moore worked on a start-up idea and went on safari in Africa.
He will start back at Microsoft in mid-March and will report to Greg Nelson, general manager of MSN's global media group, Microsoft said.
Moore, who worked at Microsoft from 1995 to 2005, was the first publisher of Microsoft's online magazine, Slate, and had also been president of MSNBC.com.
Natalie Weinstein is an associate editor who works out of Austin, Texas. She spent a decade as a reporter and editor in the newspaper industry before joining the CNET News staff in 2000. E-mail Natalie. 
- by rehtea February 1, 2009 6:11 AM PST
- This is simple industrial spying. Microsoft employee "leaves" Microsoft, goes work for a competitor, and then returns to Microsoft, getting a promotion too!
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- by getwired February 1, 2009 8:22 AM PST
- That's phenomenal dedication for industrial espionage. 4 years?
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- by viper396 February 2, 2009 11:43 AM PST
- Of course you are right...but only in a world where everyone is lying, Governments are spying on you in the bathroom, the military covers up aliens, the holocaust did not happen, 9/11 was staged, Hitler lives in Brazil, and Elvis faked his own death.
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(3 Comments)I think your hat is falling off.
How about you stop trying to drum up conspiracy theories for why people switch jobs. You only look like an idiot.