There's a common myth that the only way people leave Microsoft is in a box. All those delicious share options mean that most people who join Bill's empire tend to stay - unless they decide to be entrepreneurial and set up their own business.

Current Account hears, however, that one senior Microsoft man in Ireland is on the move. Philip Carney is giving up his job as head of human resources in the European Operations Centre in Dublin to start a new B2E (that's business-to-enterprise) venture, which will offer human resources back-office facilities to international corporations in Ireland and overseas. The departure is, we hear, amicable.

Carney is understood to be talking to potential investors who will bring equity funding and specific expertise to his new venture. An announcement is likely in the next couple of weeks.