The headline news from Redmond today is that Stephen Elop, the Microsoft man who went to Nokia and ended up selling it to the mothership, is out and its OS and hardware divisions are merging. But there was another significant move: Mark Penn is going too. Penn is a former Clinton advisor – he steered Bill’s 1996 re-election campaign and was at the heart of Hilary’s damp squib effort in 2008 – but during his time at Microsoft, he was the driving force behind its dirtiest tricks. He masterminded the company’s controversial Scroogled campaign, a two-year assault on practically every…
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