Microsoft officials on Thursday announced details of the latest companywide reorganization, designed
to help the company make itself into a leaner, meaner devices and services machine. First order of business: Steve Ballmer stays on as CEO. There's no change in leadership at the very top. And basically all the other new "winners" in the reorg are already household names at the company. The new Microsoft is not going to be cleaved cleanly along devices and services lines, as some had thought and heard. The new organization is a little more complicated than that. Gone are the current five Microsoft business units -- Windows, Server and Tools, Microsoft Business Division, Entertainment and Devices and Online Services -- each with its own president and chief financial officer. Going forward, all three of Microsoft's operating systems will be lumped together into a single division, so as to share more technologies and components. And marketing and business strategy for all of Microsoft's product lines is moving out of the individual business units and into centralized, cross-company groups. These changes will be phased in over the next several months, though some of Microsoft's roughly 100,000 employees will begin working almost immediately with their new groups. (From what I am hearing, there are no layoffs today as part of this changing of the guard.) Who's in, who's out In the new organization, reporting to Ballmer are heads of four new engineering groups, along with a handful of executives in charge of new centralized functional groups. Most of the new leaders are familiar names to those who know the company. The four new engineering chiefs: Terry Myerson, current head of Windows Phone engineering, is now the head of the new Operating Systems Group at the company. Myerson is going to run engineering for the Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox operating systems. Anything that attaches directly to these OSes, such as Xbox Live, also reports into this new OS division. All of these OSes are currently running on a common "core" based on Windows NT. Qi Lu, current head of Microsoft's Online Services Division, is now the head of the new Applications and Services group. Lu is in charge of engineering for Bing, MSN, Office 365, Office servers and clients, Dynamics CRM and ERP, Skype, Yammer and Lync. For more information on this article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57593241-75/microsoft-hits-the-reorg-button
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