I heard through the grapevine that Mike Sinneck is leaving Microsoft. He joined two years ago coming from IBM Global Services to take the position of VP of Worldwide Services Organisation. It's an interesting development in that he led a huge effort to restructure and "professionalise" the Microsoft Services Organisation (MSO). It's often been joked that it should be called Microsoft Global Services since it has adopted the IBM service model hook line and sinker. Is the job done? Or is this a fallout from a change in strategy?
What I do know is that MSO isn't as happy a place to work as it used to be. Maybe things will get better now but somehow I doubt it. The focus shifted to a scalable global business model targetted at big enterprises. That's where the money is after all.
Update Dec 6th. Not much further word on why he's leaving. Just an updated blurb on his bio to confirm he's now a former VP and some repeats of a statement that was released.