{"id":1034872,"date":"2026-09-12T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034872"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:15:28","slug":"microsofts-head-of-communications-is-leaving-after-spending-nearly-29-years-at-company-read-his-internal-memo-to-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/microsofts-head-of-communications-is-leaving-after-spending-nearly-29-years-at-company-read-his-internal-memo-to-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s head of communications is leaving after spending nearly 29 years at company: Read his internal memo to employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Shaw, Microsoft\u2019s longtime chief communications officer, is stepping down after leading the company\u2019s corporate messaging through nearly three decades of industry shifts, major leadership transitions and massive multi-billion-dollar corporate acquisitions. Shaw announced his departure in an internal memo to staff and shared a note on LinkedIn, writing that he has decided it is time for him to move on and try new things. His exit caps a nearly 29-year association with Microsoft&#8217;s public profile, comprising nearly two decades as an in-house employee preceded by years managing the company&#8217;s account at external PR agency Waggener Edstrom (now known as WE Communications).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Shaw, Microsoft\u2019s longtime chief communications officer, is stepping down after leading the company\u2019s corporate messaging through nearly three decades of industry shifts, major leadership transitions and massive multi-billion-dollar corporate acquisitions. Shaw announced his departure in an internal memo to staff and shared a note on LinkedIn, writing that he has decided it is time for him to move on and try new things. His exit caps a nearly 29-year association with Microsoft&#8217;s public profile, comprising nearly two decades as an in-house employee preceded by years managing the company&#8217;s account at external PR agency Waggener Edstrom (now known as WE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034874,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034872\/revisions\/1034874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}