Comments on: Kevin Johnson to leave Microsoft for Juniper

No successor has been named for Johnson, who has been president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division and is leaving to become CEO of Juniper Networks.

[someguy999]

that's a blow...

[abbottpark]

All the key executives have left in the last year and a half. That means they do not like what is happening.

[runswithscissorsXX]

time for some fresh blood at microsoft?

hire me.

microsoft has known only one thing since it's inception; buy the competition. now that there's so little competition left to buy, they don't have a clue what to do.

well, i do. hire me.

[someguy999]

you know what... we all thought it was wierd when Online Services and Windows were merged, so its not terribly surprising.

So I guess its not all bad. While Sinovsky is a bright guy, you have wonder about him becuase Vista's done terrible, and then with the previous version of Office which he lead we had the whole NetDocs debacle which would have put MS in a pretty awesome spot now given google.

who knows, but hopefully they'll learn as well that they need not to just cut management and merge at the top, but rather more importantly cut the deadwood all the way down the totem pole.

I liked KJ's style but he always seemed overly salesy. good luck.

[Vegaman_Dan]

I love how people automatically assume that because one exec leaves for another company that it is proof the company is failing. The people who hold this beleif are apparently not in the corporate world where this is fairly commonplace. Apple, Google, Yahoo- they all had execs leave their companies this year as well but does that automatically mean they have failed?

Clue. Get one.

[MMC Racing]

Sounds like he had an opportunity to be CEO at a solid company and it was something he couldn't pass up..