Time to Sell Your MS Stock

[JPhillips]

SEATTLE — In the biggest shuffling of Microsoft’s executive ranks since the company’s new chief executive, Satya Nadella, took over, Mark Penn, the former aide to the Clinton family, is becoming the company’s chief strategy officer.

The change will give Mr. Penn, who has been an executive vice president at Microsoft overseeing advertising and strategy, a bigger hand in determining which markets Microsoft should be in and where it should be making further investments, according to a person briefed on the change who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it had not been publicly announced.

Bringing the Al Gore campaign to Microsoft.

[stevew]

Al Gore won though.

[SFL Cat]

Windows 8 Sucks!

[flounder]

When a company gets to be a certain size, profitability becomes less about your products and more about working the government to your benefit. From that perspective it's a home run hire.

[JPhillips]

When a company gets to be a certain size, profitability becomes less about your products and more about working the government to your benefit. From that perspective it's a home run hire.

Mark Penn is never a home run hire. He's quite literally wrong about everything. The only winner of this hire is Hillary Clinton if it means she won't hire him for the '16 campaign.

[ISiddiqui]

Mark Penn is never a home run hire. He's quite literally wrong about everything. The only winner of this hire is Hillary Clinton if it means she won't hire him for the '16 campaign.

You realize that Mark Penn is probably the reason why Microsoft wasn't broken up in the 1990s anti-trust case, right?

Wiki:
Penn has served as a key strategic advisor to Bill Gates and Microsoft since the mid-1990s. Penn began working with Microsoft when the company faced antitrust litigation initiated by the U.S. Justice Department.[7] Penn also created the famous "blue sweater" advertisement that featured Bill Gates and was instrumental in reclaiming the company's reputation. In 2006, a survey of global opinion leaders found that Microsoft was the world's most-trusted company, a development which The Wall Street Journal partially attributed to Penn's advice.[20]
Mark Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Penn)

[flounder]

If he was responsible for actually plotting strategy, I would agree with you, but this is all about his political connections.