Microsoft developer division chief Julia Liuson resigns, The Verge reports

Microsoft (MSFT) is losing another veteran executive as Julia Liuson, head of the company’s developer division, is resigning from the software giant after 34 years, The Verge’s Tom Warren reports. Liuson spent the past 12 years leading Microsoft’s developer business, during a period Microsoft focused more on open source projects and acquired GitHub for $7.5B. Liuson will continue as head of DevDiv until the end of June, and then move to an “advisory role” reporting to Microsoft CoreAI chief Jay Parikh, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge.