Brian Valentine heads to Amazon.com
Seattle Times has reported interesting bit of news...
"Brian Valentine, who herded the past three versions of Microsoft's flagship operating-system software toward completion, left the company Friday to take a senior position at Amazon.com"
Valentine's Microsoft.com exec page confirms this:
"Brian Valentine left Microsoft in September 2006.
Valentine was senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division (COSD), responsible for development of the Windows operating system and driving engineering excellence within the Windows operating system and across platforms.
Valentine joined Microsoft in 1987 as an engineering manager in the LAN Manager group and then spent most of the next 12 years working on Microsoft Mail and Microsoft Exchange Server, eventually managing the Exchange and BackOffice family product units. He was put in charge of Windows in December 1998."