Microsoft fires CIO Stuart L. Scott: suspects "L" stands for Linux?

The wires are buzzin' with news that Microsoft has fired its Chief Information Officer and Vice Prez, Stuart L. Scott. No reason was given other than the benign, "violation of company policies" HR-speak. Scott joined Microsoft in 2005 from GE. His successor will be Alain Crozier.

[Thanks, George T. and everyone who sent this in]

[Mick_Bagler @ Nov 7th 2007 4:17AM]

Probably related to child porn.

[michas_pi @ Nov 7th 2007 4:25AM]

The "L" stands for Lindows.

[lnx8 @ Nov 7th 2007 4:45AM]

Never trust a man with a first name as a last name!

[Scott @ Nov 7th 2007 11:05AM]

Actually, "Scott" is traditionally a last name. Typically it means "of Scottland."

Yeah, it's my first name, but it's a last name first.

[MAIcrosoft @ Nov 7th 2007 4:46AM]

didn't "L" stand for L Lawliet?

lol

[Joe @ Nov 7th 2007 5:07AM]

He brought an iPod to work.

[Dustin @ Nov 7th 2007 5:11AM]

early comments on other blogs point to harassment of female coworkers

[RC @ Nov 7th 2007 6:05AM]

Maybe he did it with the cleaning lady on his desk. Eh, I've been watching a lot of Seinfeld lately.

[taggie @ Nov 7th 2007 7:03AM]

Maybe he gave her a cashmere sweater ;-)

[Rerun @ Nov 7th 2007 8:42AM]

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

[Rerun @ Nov 7th 2007 8:39AM]

Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?

[taggie @ Nov 7th 2007 10:35AM]

Well Mr. Gates should have told him such a thing is just simply not done at microsoft.
People do such things all the time, in other offices.

[Phu5ion @ Nov 7th 2007 10:42AM]

Oh cashmere! Hey, what's that red dot?

[Fred @ Nov 7th 2007 5:40AM]

Do you hear that? It's the sound of thousands of comedians rolling over in their grave because of the jokes here...

[Fruition @ Nov 7th 2007 6:14AM]

Dammit Fred! I was about to make a mockery of his hair in that picture (or lack thereof!) but now that you've gone and said that I have to actually stop and think of something wittier. Jerk.

[Felix Fdot @ Nov 7th 2007 6:21AM]

Damn. Didn't expect to feel the guild's strike even here in the comments.

[huggles @ Nov 7th 2007 7:20AM]

Maybe they fired him for wearing a pink-salmon shirt to work? Serial offender perhaps?

[Andir3.0 @ Nov 7th 2007 10:57AM]

It couldn't be as bad as knowing what color pink-salmon actually is.

[Magallanes @ Nov 7th 2007 7:43AM]

Usually CIO are not fired, they quit. So if he was fired then some really nasty happened (and no, no linux, a iphony or a simple cashmere with a red spot).

[Jake @ Nov 7th 2007 7:51AM]

I thought the 'L' stood for 'Little'. I always knew that company was run by rats. ;)

-JP

[LondonConsultant @ Nov 7th 2007 8:23AM]

You can vote on "sources in Redmond say the executive had an affair with one of his subordinates, who had recently received a substantial promotion... from Stuart Scott himself" at http://www.pollsb.com/polls/poll/3617/microsoft-fires-cio-stuart-scott-possibly-for-inter-office-affair-with-his-subordinate

[Frankenstein Black @ Nov 7th 2007 9:03AM]

More commonly referred to as "Quid Pro Blow"...

[Gian @ Nov 7th 2007 8:34AM]

Is it just me or does this guy remind you guys of Sloth from the Goonies?

Sorry. I couldn't help it. It really was the first thing that came to mind.

Granted Stevie B sure acts a whole lot like Sloth. "HEY YOU GUYS!!!"

Gian

[Ike @ Nov 7th 2007 9:31AM]

MSFT HR has a nice habit of whenever anyone leaves under anything circumstances that they don't like going around to all their ex coworkers and asking "Did you ever have a problem with so and so" - they make it their job to make sure that it was the employee that was the problem, not the company, job, horrible politics, etc. If you're smart you don't participate even if you had a problem with the person as it just feeds into the cycle of ignorance over there.

[Brian @ Nov 7th 2007 9:49AM]

If that story is true (fired because of promoting said piece of arse), would microsoft ever have to admit to why they fired him? They're a publicly traded corporation... wouldn't that mean they have to disclose the truth for firing their CIO?

[mlb @ Nov 7th 2007 10:28AM]

Now, on this edition of Sports Center...



Oh wait.

[Hax Or @ Nov 7th 2007 10:52AM]

Can't Stand Ya!

[I.P.Freely @ Nov 7th 2007 11:52AM]

Should've done a better job hiding his iPod.

[pscs @ Nov 7th 2007 12:34PM]

he bit a bite off an apple. then he brought his ipod to work. he surfed the internet and on the page there's an iphone ad.

thereafter he was taken to bill's office. this guy ate a mac burger then it dirtied his book = macbook.

the real reason that he was fired is because he had a leopard wallpaper on his desktop.

[KC @ Nov 7th 2007 1:53PM]

What Romormonger says: http://valleywag.com/tech/rumormonger/microsoft-cio-underling-took-family-leave-before-firing-319672.php

[Markus @ Nov 7th 2007 2:51PM]

Could it be hairline-related?

[kL @ Nov 7th 2007 4:17PM]

He wasn't evil enough!

[michael @ Nov 7th 2007 5:28PM]

I've seen people at the Microsoft campus with iPods, and there's nothing at all wrong with that.

In fact, Microsoft has a Mac unit, and surprise, surprise - they have Macs.

So I don't see where people are pulling that thought.

[Z @ Nov 8th 2007 10:56AM]

Stuart (around the water cooler): "Yeah, and so I says to him, 'Micro-SOFT??? LAME-OHHHH! Listen, Billy-BOY, you shoulda named or RE-named the company *Long-n-Hard*, but what else can I expects from a tater-chip eatin' nerd and his baldy 'Developers, developers, developers', sweat-stained-sidekick, eh?'"

Stuart (turns around, suddenly startled): "OH! Hu-hu-hi, B-b-bill. H-h-hows it goin'?"

Bill: "You're fired."

[skhawaja @ Nov 8th 2007 1:50PM]

I guess having a CIO title doesn't mean anything - quick replacement though - all other CIO's should be feeling the heat - hey look MS can replace their CIO just like that - so we can do it too - does he kinda look like Balmer a little? and to the person that mentioned harassment of female workers - does that mean he was demanding a higher quality of work and got sideswiped or he was there so long that the immediate staff started looking irresistible?

can't screw around at work unless you are in the adult film industry.

seek professional help (escorts, psychologists)

[laci @ Nov 9th 2007 7:12PM]

I think everyone that posts blogs about someone they don't even know, they've never talked to or met, and makes jokes about their hair or shirt, is terribly rude. I'm a good friend of Stuart Scott's son and can any of you imagine how he would feel if he read any of this? This disgusts me. I think it's ridiculous that people get a good time out of making fun of this man, that is probably having a hard enough time as it is.

[Sean DL @ Nov 10th 2007 7:34PM]

Welcome to the blogsphere. Emotions and feelings go over there--->

[go home stuart @ Nov 17th 2007 5:27PM]

he repeatedly fibbed about his performanc numbers and then brought in a GE Fleet of Hillbillies from Kentucky that can barely read and everyone is real mad about it. The person he was sleeping with is not the only one he promoted. He brought in over priced, under talented, vanilla buddies from GE at 3 or 3 times higher the level that they would have ever been at GE + higher than microsoft emplyees would have valued them at. He also forced people in the company to hire his friends and family. We're glad sturt's gone and now we want all the other liers and cheating hillbillies that continue to fib about their numbers becasue the have no skills, to go home.

go home hillbillies - go home