“Microsoft announced a sweeping shake-up of its executive ranks Thursday, placing new executives over operations facing fierce new competition from Google, Apple and cellphone makers,” Saul Hansell and John Markoff report for The New York Times.
“The announcements were part of a broad management reorganization involving seven new senior vice presidents and seven new corporate vice presidents,” Hansell and Markoff report. “One of the more significant leadership changes was in the cellphone operations. Andy Lees was named senior vice president for mobile communications operations. Mr. Lees, who had overseen the server business, succeeds Pieter Knook, who, the company said, ‘made the decision to leave Microsoft to pursue other opportunities.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, right. Probably wants “to spend more time with his family,” too.
Hansell and Markoff continue, “Microsoft has been paying more attention to its cellphone business following the introduction of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android software operating system. In only a few months of the iPhone’s release, according to Canalys, a market research firm, Apple gained 28 percent of the smartphone market in the United States, a greater share of the market than the cellphones using Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software.”
“The other major change was the replacement of Steve Berkowitz, the current senior vice president of Microsoft’s Online Services group,” Hansell and Markoff report. “Mr. Berkowitz, the former chief executive of the online site Ask Jeeves, was hired with great fanfare in April 2006 to help revive Microsoft’s search and portal operations. Microsoft has been unable to make a dent in Google’s growing dominance in search and search advertising. Mr. Berkowitz will leave the company this August, the company said.”
More on which deck chairs are being rearranged here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” (no, not that Bill) for the heads up.]
A fish rots from the head down.
The first MDN take is also making fun of Hillary Clinton.
No doubt another pile if steaming bulls**t from the #1 Micros**t fan, Screw Bang®.
Having not read it, I wouldn’t know.
More of the same, Thorin!
@Ampar, thank you for not sharing that image of Gates and Ballmer steaming up the windows. Really, I appreciate your thoughtfulness at not telling what you were thinking. Thanks, buddy!
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To Woody: No problem!
And I had to completely skip the idea of Ballmer safely balanced on a floating door while Bill slipped away from him into the murky, frigid depths. I’m all for the suspension of disbelief but the principles of buoyancy and gravity were much too hard to ignore.
Thankfully like ask yourself Microsoft management are also burying heads in sand. The future of computing and communications is mobile and in mobile MS are presently fighting to hold on to what little market share they have while its opponents of many hues are expanding into their backyard.
In the world of the blind the one eyed man is King. It seems that Microsofties can’t gather one eye between them though at MS itself headless chickens are becoming more common by the day it seems.
re: “‘made the decision to leave Microsoft to pursue other opportunities.'”
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Corporate bullshit for: “he was sacked because he was crap at his job. Plus we had a younger guy in-line for the job who we can pay less a year but works twice the amount of hours and licks major Balmer ass”
Makes me laugh when this sort of thing happens in blue-chip companies, they just cannot say this thing in the way exactly what all the employees know.
I remember when Ballmer took over M$. The very first thing he did was have press conference to let us all know how competent he was. In that press conference he let us all know how over valued M$ stock was….(loud scratching noise).
From that point on I knew he was an idiot. Even if the stock was $10,000 a share it is not a CEO’s job to devalue his company’s stock…not under any conditions.
Yet they keep the fat idiot on……..
Just my $0.02
Maybe all these broken chairs are just getting too expensive for M$? |o|