Top Microsoft Web Executive to Depart

February 15, 2008 By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. announced the departure of several executives Thursday, among them a Silicon Valley veteran recruited to help fix its unprofitable Web business and one in charge of marketing Windows Vista, and the promotion of more than a dozen others across the company.

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