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

To: t2 who wrote (21568)	4/25/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I would think he would be ideal to take care of MSN. Maybe. But this seems like a bizarre way to go about it. They apparently decided two months ago that Maffei was more valuable as financial chief rather than running the Consumer division. Instead, they appointed DeVaan and Chase to run Consumer with the understanding that they might still get an outsider with media experience to act as executive. How can Gates and Ballmer change their minds now without risking the loss of DeVaan and Chase? Both of them seem loyal to Microsoft, but such loyalty goes only so far. I'm not sure they'd be happy to play lieutenants to someone who just two months ago was judged not ready for the task of running the division. I would guess that Microsoft is having trouble making acquisitions in the internet division partly because its leadership has been so unsettled. I don't see how putting Maffei in there now would change that perception.