Windows Phone manager who tweeted inside info about Nokia device is out at Microsoft

Damn... guess I better watch what I say... wait... I don't work for MS...do I? No...hell let me check.. .god knows who the company was sold to and who I work for now.

A Windows Phone principal program manager has left the company two weeks after making headlines for tweeting his impressions of an unreleased Nokia phone running the Microsoft mobile operating system.

A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed this morning that Joe Marini, principal program manager for the Windows Phone web platform, no longer works for the company, but declined to provide further details, citing a policy against discussing personnel matters.

But the back story, as we understand it from people inside the company, is that Marini resigned after learning that he would be let go for improper use of social media and disclosure of confidential information.

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