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Microsoft Shuffles MSN Leadership

Microsoft this week said Ted Cahall was joining the company as a corporate vice president for MSN. Cahall previously served as chief technology officer and executive vice president at AOL. Meanwhile, Marc Davis, formerly "chief scientist" at Invention Arts, is joining Microsoft as a partner architect to work on vision and technology strategy for the Online Services division.

Davis previously did research work at the MIT Media Lab, Yahoo, University of California Berkeley and Interval Research. Cahall is replacing Microsoft Corporate Vice President Erik Jorgensen, who will now focus on leading engineering for mobile and mapping in Bing. He previously led engineering for MSN, mobile and mapping. The executive shuffling comes about six months after Microsoft rolled out a major redesign of its MSN portal. In an official statement, Microsoft said the changes are designed "to align the Online Services Division's engineering leadership team to capitalize on key opportunities for MSN and Bing."

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