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Bob Muglia will go on to other opportunities; Microsoft may not The head of the product division most important to its enterprise IT customers is leaving Microsoft this summer for unnamed other opportunities.Usually that kind of description comes at the top of a story in which some vendor exec is being fired for some horrible indiscretion mdash; usually failing to make as much money as the CEO would have liked by following a strategy the CEO imposed. In the case o
stanley de f Bob Muglia, 23-year veteran of Microsoft and head of its critical Server Tools Business STB will leave this summer, running the companyrsquo third-largest division as a lame duck for half a year, while his boss, Steve Ballmer looks for a replacement,
hydrojug sale according to a note Ballmer sent to Microsoft employees earlier today. In October, when Ray Ozzie, one of Microsoftrsquo dwindling number of brain trust members, retired, Ballmer sent out a friendly wersquo;re sorry to see him go, but my buddy has decided to retire note to employees. For Muglia the tone was much more direct. Bob Muglia and I have been talking about the overall business and what is needed to accelerate our growth. In this context, I have decided that now is the time to put new leadership in place for STB, the memo read. While Ballmer noted Mugliarsquo successes, it was clear hersquo;d made the decision, not Muglia, out of dissatisfaction with the performan
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Class actions charge that company is overstating what it does for subscribers As the CEO of LifeLock Inc., Todd Davis has attracted considerable attention and controversy by publicly posting his Social Security number on the companyrsquo Web site and publishing it in ads mdash; all part of an effort to highlight LifeLock
polene cyme rsquo identity theft protection service.But now LifeLock customers in three states are suing Davis and his company for false advertising and deceptive trade pract
owala ices. Class-action lawsuits filed over the past few weeks in New Jersey, Maryland and West Virginia allege that Tempe, Ariz.-based LifeLock is overstating the capabilities of its service and misleading customers about the guarantees that it makes to customers.Contrary to the all-encompassing impression created through LifeLockrsquo advertisements, the protection it claims to provide only extends to limited instances of identity theft, claims the complaint filed against the company in New Jerseyrsquo Middlesex County Superior Court. The complaint also asserts that LifeLock actually has failed to protect Davisrsquo; identity, saying that his personal information has been misappropriated in at least 20 separate identity theft incidents. For fees of $10 pe
polene espana r month or $100 annually, LifeLock offers to remove the names of customers from junk-mail lists and place credit alerts on their behalf with all three of the major credit reporting agencies mdash; Equifax Inc., Experian Inc.
