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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has accepted the resignation of a fairly-senior manager who "leaked" information via Twitter. Joe Marini, a Principal Program Manager on Windows Phone, is out after tweeting information about an upcoming Nokia (NYSE:NOK) (HEL:NOK1V) phone, running Windows Phone 7.5. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what all the fuss is about.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: You gotta know when to switch off the auto-pilot...
Todd Bishop moves sideways:
A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed this morning that Joe Marini...no longer works for the company. ... Marini resigned after learning that he would be let go for...disclosure of confidential information.
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Microsofts social media and blogging policy calls on its employees to...not disclose information in tweets or posts that [are] confidential. ... The company has been taking harder line on leaks in general recently.
Gareth Halfacree sees no ships:
Marini was responsible for the first confirmed details on the...device which represents Nokia's first attempt at competing on a level playing field. ... "I just got a chance to try out one of the slickest looking Nokia phones I have ever seen. Soon, you will too!"
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[B]oth companies are interested in keeping details of the device under wraps until its official launch. Apparently, nobody thought to tell Marini that...[which] has cost him his job.
Ina Fried has the rest of the story:
He then followed up with tweets giving the phone a rating of 8,...adding that the camera was good, but I didnt have optimal lighting. ... Id like a larger screen too.
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Hint: If you are going to tweet about...unreleased products, you might want to give them a 9 or a 10.
Is that really grounds for divorce? Chris Velazco has more:
[T]he tweets themselves are hardly what one would call juicy...hardly anything groundbreaking.
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Joe, however, isnt exactly a first time offender. Back in March, Joe tweeted that he would be showing off an unreleased version of IE9 for Windows Phone. ... [T]his new set of tweets could have been the straws that broke the camels back.
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Call me naive, but I think Microsoft and Windows Phone need more people like Joe. ... The offending tweets gave people just enough to whet their interest, and left it at that. ... [At] what point is a leak really a leak?.
Alex Wilhelm knows what it's like to work for technology companies:
Microsoft is actually famous for being hard to be fired from, but Marini seems to have found a recipe that works.
