Steve Ballmer Outlines Plan to Reorganize Microsoft Into a Lean, Mean, Streamlined Machine

mpctips · 2013-07-11T14:10:31Z

Microsoft: In a long-winded open email to employees, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer talked at length about the company's "far-reaching realignment" strategy that has been rumored in the media for about the past week. Though he goes on and on (and on...), the underlying message is that Microsoft is ready to rally behind a single strategy as one company as opposed to a collection of divisional strategies. It's a streamlining of its operations, if you will.

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newsguy3939d ago

Does it involve developers?

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evil_element3939d ago

NO :(

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adorie3939d ago

He needs powdered deodorant to go with the developers.

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evil_element3939d ago

Think everyone can agree the company was very much better off without Steve Ballmer.

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mcstorm3938d ago

I see why people say that but its not him who has messed up the company and I don't think they are messed up but the market and times have changed.

The phone market had a big shakeup with the iphone and Ms thought windows phone had enough to take a big part of the market and in a way it was a os that could of but the devices were not there. Windows phone was there next step and because android and ios had the market it was never going to be an over night success but look at it now its gaining on the 10% world wide market mainly because of Nokia but it is a os that is getting noticed.

The windows market is still big and will always be big but what people seem to be forgetting is that the business market is not what it was 10 years ago. I work in it and work with a lot of small business who now have servers that are 8 to 10 years old and the same with pc's but they can't find the money to upgrade yet. Once the market picks up so will the pc market as there will be a lot of companys out there that will be upgrading pcs and servers.

As for the tablet market they are doing quite well as what people seem to forget is that in the 1st 3 months they had gone form 0 to 7.5% of the tablet market and this is a hard market to get into because of the android and ios numbers but it is getting a foot hold there and it will only grow as more shops get windows 8 tablets there.

Its the same with the surface. In its 1st 3 months the surface rt sold over 1 million now it may not sound like a lot to what the iPad has sold but what people seem to forget is that this tablet was only available in 1 or 2 shops in each country in Europe and the US yet when you look back the Moto xoom which was out in most shops and the 1st a android tablet only sold a quarter of a million.

The List of things Ms dose is more than windows office and Xbox and if you look at there last quarter they are the only ones who are growing out of Google Microsoft and apple.

Business works in cycles where one is at the top and another one rises to the top and so on and so on.

Microsoft are in good shape at the moment yes they are not the power house they were in the 90s but they are still making quality software and now hardware and they won't be going anywhere soon.

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Revvin3938d ago

The rot had set in before Steve Ballmer but I don't feel he's done much to stop it, perhaps even accelerating it with his scattergun approach that Microsoft products need to be everything and not just focus on being good in their category. Trying to force a touchscreen UI onto desktop users, the XBOX One focus seeming to be on watching TV and interacting and not games.

Microsoft blew a huge chance to dominate the mobile section years ago. They didn't seem to know where Windows CE or Pocket PC was going despite having this neat little mobile OS they just stalled and gave ground to Apple and Google. If only they had continued to push those products forward instead of side-lining them then who knows, Apple or Google may not have the share of the market they have today and Microsoft would not have pinned its hopes on partnering with a downwardly spiralling hardware manufacturer like Nokia.

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evil_element3938d ago

No, what kills Microsoft is a poor leader. M$ is lead by big share holder who knows jack about technology.

Excuses are not an option. To stay ahead of a the market, a company must constantly evolve. Never stay still. If not it will fail.

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mcstorm3938d ago

I don't think MS are in as bad a shape as people are making.

I also don't get the hate toward windows 8. I have it on my none touch screen pc at work and imo I would not go back to windows 7 as it starts up faster, my 3 year old laptop runs better and I only use a few metro apps on it but they work find on a none touch screen and it works with all the software I used on my windows 7 pc. The only thing that has really changed on a none touch pc is the new start screen that you can pin what you want to it so it dose more than 7s did.

I also have a surface rt at home and its the other way round with it. I only use office as a none touch option and works well with the touch cover and then all the metro apps work find with touch and I often work from home with it and not had any issues with what I do or finding apps for it.

most people I know who have a tablet have an android and ipad have all said the same thing to me that they want a surface next as it will replace both there pc and tablet.

As for windows phone I agree wimo was a good OS but if im honest I would take windows phone over it. Yes it was missing some things wimo used at the start but now it will do most things it would and its a lot easer to use, its slick fast and very stable.

But we are all different and have different needs for me I have tried all the other products out there over the last few years but I have found my self using Microsoft's services software and hardware as it works with my life better than what others have to offer.

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cyclindk3938d ago

Sure... till they pull another 180... but two 180s DOES equal 360 and the Xbox 360 was pretty successful... touché Mircrosoft, till we meet again!!!

HAHAHAHAHAAH!

Jumps off edge of building and disappears into the darkness..

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