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It may be a thumping tumble down from running IT operations for the world's most famous software company, but Stuart Scott, recently sacked by Microsoft under unexplained/scandalous circumstances, has landed on his feet, albeit in an industry that as of late has displayed all the stability of a drunken sailor.

In addition to the question of what corporate policy now-former Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott violated to lead to his termination by the company on Monday, many other unknowns remain.

Microsoft disclosed that it has fired CIO Stuart Scott after an internal investigation determined that he had violated unspecified company policies.

Microsoft fired its Chief Information Officer, Stuart Scott, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

Why would a successful CIO leave one company to become co-CIO of another with only one-third the revenue and employees? Answer: The new company is Microsoft. Stuart Scott moved there in mid-2005 from General Electric, the US$160 billion, 319,000-employee behemoth where he had worked for 17 years, most recently as CIO of GE Industrial Systems. Then, about a year ago, co-CIO Ron Markezich was tapped to run Microsoft's budding managed services business. Scott has been Microsoft's sole CIO since then.

After 20 years with Nortel, Enterprise Solutions President Steve Slattery is leaving the company Oct. 1. Taking over immediately, however, is Joel Hackney, Nortel's former senior vice president of Global Operations and Quality, and another of CEO Mike Zafirovski's colleagues from General Electric. Hackney, credited with driving many of Nortel's recent operational, supply chain, customer and business improvements, shared some thoughts with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy on the sudden switch, which comes while Enterprise Solutions is enjoying some solid momentum -- although apparently, things aren't moving fast enoug

In a surprise move, Nortel this week replaced its Enterprise Solutions chief, even though the unit is growing at about three times the market.

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Websense has appointed Timothy Lee to a newly created position of vice president for the Asia-Pacific and Japan, another step in its aggressive strategy to take on its larger rivals Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro.

The head of IBM expects the company's small to midsize business (SMB) operation to become the vendor's biggest industry focus within a couple of years.

A small Utah online backup service that recently signed a deal to back up 300,000 PCs owned by General Electric Co. Thursday announced a US$4.95 per month unlimited plan for Mac owners.