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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Microsoft CFO Liddell Departs (Kiwi-Lovers Mourn); Klein Becomes New Numbers Dude

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Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell is leaving the software giant at the end of the year, and will be replaced by longtime Microsoft finance exec Peter Klein.

A Microsoft spokesman said Liddell wanted to pursue jobs beyond his finance role outside the company.

BoomTown always enjoyed his adorkable New Zealand accent, even when it was talking econalypse 24/7.

I have no idea what Klein sounds like, but he currently serves as CFO of its Business Division, which is one of the company’s largest units.

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Liveblogging the Microsoft Earnings Call: Glum Chris at the Recessiondome

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Well, despite the news being as bad at Microsoft as it was at Yahoo earlier this week, the conference call after the software giant released its third-quarter earnings was 100 percent less naughty and 200 percent more glum.

In other words, while there were no F-bombs dropped, there were lots of E-bombs–as in econalypse.

Here’s BoomTown’s liveblogging of the call–featuring the software giant’s semi-apocalyptic CFO, Chris Liddell.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Liveblogging the Microsoft Second-Quarter Earnings Call: A Lipstick-Free Pig

Earlier today Microsoft decided it would drop the bomb early by moving its second-quarter earnings conference call to 8 a.m. PST instead of 2:30 p.m. PST.

BoomTown, naturally, had to liveblog the Microsoft event, in which its execs tried mightily to put lipstick on a very ugly pig. It was a good effort, at least.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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