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Microsoft fires chief information executive
SOFTWARE Giant Microsoft is keeping very quiet about why it fired its chief information officer.
Stuart Scott was ordered to clean out his desk and handed his P45.
A Volish spinner said it was following an investigation and was for " violation of company policies".
SpokesVole Lou Gellos read the carefully worded statement to AP saying that Scott was ordered out of Redmond on Friday. He would not be drawn on the matter further.
Scott has had a home in the Volehill since 2005 and was responsible for the information technology infrastructure. He was quite close to the top as he reported to Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, who listens to the shy and retiring, softly spoken Steve Ballmer quite often.
Alain Crozier, a corporate vice president who also reports to Turner, and Shahla Aly, a general manager in the services group, will take over his duties until a replacement is found. µ
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Hmm...porn, warez, or carding/spamming, which is it?
fiver says its the secretaries baps?
He was probably using Linux :)
Must have been "outed" as (OMG) a closet Linux user! <|:D
A P45 is a handgun from Kahr Arms. Let's hope they didn't hand him one of those...
I hear he voted democrat :o
Maybe he was leaking information. Why else would they make this so private?

Side note. Inq loses a valuable inside source.
As Groklaw's PJ quipped, maybe he was caught telling the truth...
Probably caught him using a Mac... Or Ubuntu...
Apparently Mr. Stuart Scott was caught not lying to the public, which seems to be a direct violation of Microsoft policy.

http://www.crn.com/software/202803109

Grounds for immediate termination from Microsoft. But, I bet Mr. Scott will have a great future career with one of the Linux companies working to actually benefit (not deceive and take advantage of) others.
He is guilty of having told Steve that Vista users are going back to XP.