Out with the old Scott and in with the new. Microsoft announced today that it has hired Disney’s CIO, Tony Scott (pictured)
for its vacant CIO post. (The CIO has been open since November when Microsoft fired Stuart Scott for mysterious reasons that indicated a sex scandal.) Tony Scott seems to have a decent pedigree. Prior to the Disney job, he was CTO at General Motors and before that, VP of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. His background doesn’t indicate a lot of experience with technology companies – so we’ll have to see if he bows under the pressure of managing an entire company of IT power users and some of the brightest minds in the IT world. He is charged with managing Microsoft’s 4,000-person global IT organization that supports the company’s sales, services and internal enterprise systems.
Microsoft will likely be announcing a lot of new blood in the coming months. Top officials are resigning en masse, it seems. See also: The post-Bill-era exodus begins!
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