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Major Microsoft Re-Organization

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shaking-the-status-quo dept.

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."

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  1. Find a Chair Before the Tune Stops by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    • 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 ESR

    A 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.

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    1. Re:Find a Chair Before the Tune Stops by Zemplar · · Score: 5, Funny

      No thanks. I'd rather NOT be in a room full of chairs at Microsoft just in case Ballmer walks in.

    2. Re:Find a Chair Before the Tune Stops by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny
      No thanks. I'd rather NOT be in a room full of chairs at Microsoft just in case Ballmer walks in.

      Yeah, but maybe Jarbo is like a big transformer, you know, and can fend him off!

      "Release that chair, scurilous villain!"

      I think this should be called Microsoft: The Jarbo Era

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    3. Re:Find a Chair Before the Tune Stops by Jesus_666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      But Steve Ballmer can bury anyone he wants! Steve Ballmer throws chairs all the time and doesn't even think twice about it. This guy is so crazy and awesome that he flips out ALL the time. I heard that Steve Ballmer was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon Steve Ballmer buried the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw Steve Ballmer totally throw a chair at some kid just because the kid opened a window.

      And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. in other news... by sirmalloc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linus Torvalds, ESR, and RMS were all appointed as heads of the Window's product group.

  3. I wonder..... by 8127972 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..... If this will stop the chair throwing?

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  4. Lost its responsive time... by Dark+Coder · · Score: 4, Funny

    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).

  5. Reorganization by Jazzer_Techie · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
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    I think that pretty much says it all.

  6. Steve Balmer's new title: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chair-man.

    Tip your waitresses! I'll be here all week!

  7. So THAT'S why closed source is better than FOSS! by RenQuanta · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.....