Major organizational shake-up imminent at Microsoft
seattletimes.com
The key change will be to reorganize its business around four customer-focused groups - consumers, corporate customers, home office and telecommuters, and developers (programmers). That would be a big shift from the company's current organization, which runs along technology lines, such as Windows, interactive media, and programming platforms and tools.
Perhaps the biggest change, though, will hit Windows 2000, a product the company has said would unite its consumer and corporate businesses. Ballmer has recognized that the oft-delayed operating system, now expected to launch in February 2000, won't work for both segments. Instead, Microsoft will offer separate versions of Windows 2000 for each market.
Microsoft is feeling the heat ... different Windoze 2000 operating systems for home and business? Shirley ... they must be joking.
They are in trouble. Support costs are on the rise.
Another win for Linux.
Linux ... it's not just for breakfast anymore. |
