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Whilst so a lot of of us Microsoft watchers were preoccupied with the hasty departure of previous Microsfot CIO Stuart Scott,Office 2010 Professional, the resignation with the provider;s OEM chief slipped perfect by many of us.Scott Di Valerio quietly left Microsoft in the fairly finish of October and has resurfaced at Lenovo. Redmond Channel Companion reported on Di Valerio;s career moves in early November, but I missed their story.Di Valerio is slated to start his new work on December three as Lenovo senior vice president and president of the Americas Group.Because November 2005, Di Valerio was corporate vice president of Microsoft;s Unique Gear Producer (OEM) Division. The head with the OEM division typically has been an crucial post at Microsoft — and one with quite the revolving door because the mid-1990s.The most (in)famous of Microsoft;s OEM chiefs was Joachim Kempin, who left his publish in 2000. Richard Roy, head of Microsoft Germany,Office 2010 Key, stepped in to fill Kempin;s shoes. Next, Richard Fade, the VP in charge of Microsoft;s desktop applications division,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, headed the OEM unit for a couple of years, during the tough DOJ sanction-negotiation period. Then, in July of 2002, Rodrigo Costa took the OEM reins. In 2005,Windows 7 Product Key, Di Valerio moved over from his position as Microsoft;s Corporate Vice President of Finance and Administration and chief accounting officer (CAO).It can;t have been much fun to be OEM chief at Microsoft for the past couple of years. Vista;s constantly changing due date and feature set was followed by finger-pointing between Microsoft and its PC partners regarding hardware/driver incompatibilities. Microsoft ended up giving in to OEMs; requests to allow them to preload Windows XP for an additional number of months in order to appease customers not ready to move to Vista.Redmond Channel Companion said that James Pickney (whose previous title I had no luck finding) will serve as the interim leader of the Microsoft OEM Division,Office 2007 Product Key, working with Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of the Windows Organization Group, and COO Kevin Turner, to find a full-time replacement for Di Valerio.Update: A couple of readers pointed out that another previous Softie, Microsoft;s former Human Resources Chief Ken DiPietro (who left the enterprise in a hurry in 2005 for publicly undisclosed reasons), is now the HR chief at Lenovo.