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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Punko who wrote (16793)	2/23/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 74651

Could Microsoft be setting the stage for its own breakup? Possible. But it's more likely that this is a reorganization partly designed to make any breakup less likely. The current divisions at the company follow logical product lines. Most could easily exist as separate companies. There's little communication among the divisions in the current setup. The new division lines seem to cut across many of the current product groups, making their integration slow and a bit more painful. Office, for instance, is now king of the hill in the Desktop Applications Division, but seems to be an odd fit in any one of the new groups. The current online group (which has an ever-changing name I can't keep up with) is also setup now in a way that makes it look a lot like any of the high-flying internet companies. But the new org map seems to make it part of two different groups and bring into the Consumer group part of the Windows (consumer) group along with some of the apps that have been in the Office-DAD group for awhile. It really looks like Ballmer is going for less-independent groups that would be much harder to break apart.