Microsoft Corp. CIO Tony Scott left the software maker last week in what the company said was a choice to focus on “personal projects.” Jim Dubois, vice president of IT product and services management at Microsoft, is serving as interim CIO while the company searches for his replacement within and outside of the company, a Microsoft spokesperson told CIO Journal Monday.
At Microsoft, Mr. Scott oversaw Microsoft’s migration from Siebel customer management software owned by Oracle Corp. and SAP AG ’s enterprise resource planning software to Microsoft’s own Dynamics software, said Mr. Helm. “Dogfooding,” in which employees test their own technology on their own IT systems before it’s launched to market, also plays a huge role at Microsoft. Mr. Scott told Microsoft news portal ActiveWin in April 2012 that he also tested the company’s Office 365 collaboration software and Windows Azure cloud software before the company commercialized them.
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