S. “Soma” Somasegar, the longtime Microsoft executive who most recently led the company’s Developer Division, is leaving the company after 27 years, he confirmed this afternoon.
“It has been an absolutely great journey – working with such an amazing team and building great developer technologies,” he said as part of a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon. Somasegar noted that he plans to pursue the “next phase” of his career, but didn’t go into detail about his future plans.
https://twitter.com/SSomasegar/status/652229942189555712
Somasegar has been at Microsoft since 1989, working on 8 releases of Windows before joining the Developer Division. He has helped to lead Microsoft’s push into open-source technologies, including the decision last year to open-source the .NET core server runtime and framework.
Mary Jo Foley, who broke the news on ZDNet, quoted a company spokesperson saying that Microsoft is working on its transition plan for the Developer Division and hopes to announce the plan in the next few weeks.