Microsoft Does the Reorg Shuffle
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Written By Reprise Media | September 21, 2005 | Share This
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Facing growing concerns that the supersized company will not be able to compete with its smaller, more agile rivals, Microsoft announced that it will be reorganizing its business divisions into three primary groups.
According to this article in the Seattle Times the lines will be drawn as follows: one division devoted to Windows, one to Office, and one to Xbox. Each division will maintain its own president.
The move brings Microsoft’s number of business units down from seven to three and Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer hopes it will give the company the flexibility it needs to continue to grow:
“We have a fantastic pipeline over the next 12 months. I want to ensure that we have a comparable kind of pipeline or greater, essentially, for the next several years.”
See what a Microsoft employee has to say in the always-fascinating Mini-Microsoft blog.
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