Microsoft's Nadella Reshapes Top Management as Turner Leaves (bloomberg.com)

Dina Bass, reporting for Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella announced a broad reorganization of the company's senior executive ranks as long-time Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner prepares to leave for another job. Instead of naming a new COO, Nadella appointed two executives to divvy up the sales responsibilities and report to him. Jean-Philippe Courtois will be in charge of global sales, marketing and operations spanning Microsoft's 13 business areas, Nadella said in a note to employees Thursday. Judson Althoff will lead the worldwide commercial business, including government and small and medium-sized businesses. Other executives already reporting to Nadella will take on parts of Turner's job, with Chris Capossela leading worldwide marketing, Kurt DelBene leading IT and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood taking over the sales and marketing team's finance group, which had been separate.

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21st century IBM

[Anonymous Coward]

It looks like MS is going the way of IBM did in the 20th century.

As its products continue to become less relevant - you can only milk the office suite and OS for so long - It's going to transform into a job creation organization for executives. It will continue to get larger in the administration and management areas while the product departments will lag. There will be probably some more cuts in the R&D area and MS will continue to offshore its technical areas and acquire another companies in an attempt to keep some sort of revenue growth happening to appease Wall Street and allow the executives to justify their bonuses.

Then one day, the board will demand a shakeup and they'll get someone in to transform the company.

Or it'll go the way of Eastman Kodak.