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So we have someone from the Microsoft Board of Directors hitting the silk (as it was once said - back then it meant soiled underware; today I suppose it means silk sheets):
Jon Shirley, with Microsoft since 1983
ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Brier Dudley's Blog
But here we have not just any BOD member. We have one of the mamas and the papas of Microsoft in Jon Shirley.
"Turned 70 this year and is reducing his professional committments."
(ME: Is he stepping down from other board memberships? If anyone can illuminate please comment and we'll cornverse.) He will stay on until the next annual meeting in November 2008 when he can be replaced.
MICROSOFT TIMELINE
August 1, 1983 Microsoft announces that Jon Shirley, 45, has joined Microsoft as President and Chief Operating Officer and will be on the board from August 1, to June 30,. He is replacing James Towne. Shirley was previously with the Tandy Corporation
In August 1983, Jon Shirley, 45, joined Microsoft as president, chief operating officer and director. Prior to Microsoft, Shirley was vice president of computer merchandising at Tandy Corp. and had held a variety of positions in sales, merchandising, manufacturing and international operations. At Microsoft, Shirley provided the young company with the professional business acumen needed to steer it through the birth of the Windows operating system, the move to the Redmond campus and the initial public offering.
