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Major Microsoft Re-Organization
Robert Scoble writes "Microsoft is unveiling a major reorganization today to help get Vista out the door. Some of the major changes include the appointing of three new officers to the three major divisions. The Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division will be led by Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin as co-presidents; Jeff Raikes has been named president of the Microsoft Business Division; and Robbie Bach has been named as president of Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division. In addition, the company said Ray Ozzie will expand his role as chief technical officer by assuming responsibility for helping drive its software-based services strategy and execution across all three divisions."
- Johnson
- Allchin
- Raikes
- Bach
- Ozzie
Take the first letter of each name and you get Jarbo. I think they were going for Jar-Jar,but couldn't quite pull it off without ESRA reshuffle just prior to rolling out a major product launch. I think this bodes poorly. The Street may think this is very proactive and a good move, but I've seen these things from the backend often enough I think it'll only be a matter of time before they're circled like wagons with a bin lid over each's arse end.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Linus Torvalds, ESR, and RMS were all appointed as heads of the Window's product group.
In "Unrelated" News:
Microsoft announces major reorganization to open-source on their Windows Vista Product. Source's inside of Microsoft hint at a new CEO to replace the sometimes over-zealous Ballmer. Sources indicate the man's name may be Stallman, or Torvalds... No one would comment on the new CEO. However in a brief statement from a laid off programmer, "I think they let all of us programmers go because of the shift to open source. Because lets face it, everyone can make a better product with those viral and pesty open standards."
More at 11...
A bullet sounds the same in every language. So stick a fucking sock in it...
..... If this will stop the chair throwing?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
The best way to push a new product out is with loosely coordinated small engines (team leaders) with appropriate small gears (coordinators) interleaving in between the cogs.
Easy and fast to build up... Need more function? just add another wheel. Losing steam? Add another small engine.
What MSFT is doing is adding a gigantic, humonguous, caveman-styled stone wheels (CxOs) that plunders and thunders the country hillsides as it rolls, smothering and trampling all other wheels and cogs in name of progress!
Apparently, they haven't tried eXtreme Programming for the Business Manager (yet).
This reminds me of a Dilbert Cartoon
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Wally to PHB: I don't understand how the new reorganization will help us "focus on our core business." Did our core business change? Or are you saying that *every* reorg prior to this was a misdirected failure?
PHB: Wally, when a car gets a flat tire, what do you do?
Wally: Well, if I'm you, I rotate the tires and drive home.
--
I think that pretty much says it all.
To truly understand the changes here, you must learn what the titles were before they were announced:
CELarry,
CECurly,
and CEMoe.
Umm.. OK, that sounded funnier in my head.
Why do I have these images from "Office Space" running through my head? So who at Microsoft has a red stapler anyway?
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Chair-man.
Tip your waitresses! I'll be here all week!
Ballmer used to, but then some guys swiped it and took it to Google.
10 print "Re-Organization!" 20 goto 10
They can re-org to get their products out the door! A clear sign of the efficiency, productivity, and qualtiy that can only be achieved in a hierarchical, proprietary shop.
No wonder Windows is so much better than Linux. You don't see Linus doing that kind of organizational work, now do you? :P Wouldn't it be great if he could? Too bad he can't cause it's Open Source. (Damned hippie commies!) Maybe if he could, then Linux could keep pace with the Windows release cycle...!
I guess that means we'll be seeing Vista any day now.
...That's right! Annnny day now.....
The others report to the CEO (Ballmer). Sounds to me as though the next CEO will be Rudder or Ozzie, but I'm on the record suggesting Ballmer was never the right person for the CEO spot in the first place. Maybe the Vista delays were the final straw for the board, so the directors are setting up for the inevitable succession.
Or maybe they're setting up for Ballmer getting jail time for accidentally braining someone with a chair while ranting about how he's "going to fucking kill Google" or somesuch...
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
they should quit being namby pamby managers and start cracking the damn whip over there.
lots of yelling and screaming, that always works.
maybe toss a chair. threaten some air supplies and such
that will get them over the hump
So what's he going to use to staple the proper cover on his TPS reports?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Adding more bureaucracy doesnt help anything, especially in an organization already totally overbloated.
:)
From the summary:
"...for helping drive its software-based services strategy and execution across all three divisions."
And what's their software-based services strategy? Overbloat, i.e. Office. Everything fits!
They bought a bunch of "Learning to code" Boardgames, so they found out who actually coded and who was there only to clean the keyboards, but pressed the keys in a certain order that produced code ;)
The others report to the CEO (Ballmer). Sounds to me as though the next CEO will be Rudder or Ozzie, but I'm on the record suggesting Ballmer was never the right person for the CEO spot in the first place. Maybe the Vista delays were the final straw for the board, so the directors are setting up for the inevitable succession.
ObJonStewartLine: "Ballmer stated that he wants to spend more time compromising his family's security."
This sounds like a great idea. How much do I get paid? Is there backend? Health plan?