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To: Teflon who wrote (19887)	4/7/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: RTev	Respond to of 74651

our discussion about MSN yesterday still has me troubled. It is troubling. When I heard about the reorg that put DeVaan and Chase in charge, I figured that they'd settled on some kind of strategy even if they didn't get the person they wanted to run the division. But that was followed too quickly by news that Microsoft is still searching for a real executive to run the place. That's not much of a way to instill confidence in the troops over there, even if it shows high loyalty from Chase and DeVaan to leave their comfortable posts take on the interim task of running RedWest. I doubt that the trial has much to do with their inability to find an executive except in this sense: It could be preventing them from making the kind of radical change in structure that an executive might want. It would seem foolish for anyone to take it over without a guarantee of unusual autonomy for the division, but Gates, Ballmer and the board might be afraid to offer that kind of autonomy while they claim in court that the company is one mass that can't be tinkered with.