Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division re-org in the offing

May 25, 2010 | By Surur

Shake up The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is soon to undertake a major re-organization of their Entertainment and Devices Division, the home of Windows Phone, Zune and the XBox 360.

Apparently in part precipitated by the likely departure of J Allard, CTO of the group, the division’s poor performance against rivals Apple and Google could see a much wider reshuffling of responsibilities in the area, with Wall Street Journal suggesting even Robbie Bach, President for the group, may be at risk.

Devices have become an expected front in the OS war, after Microsoft successfully fended off challenges in the desktop, netbook and server front from OS’s like Linux and OSX.

Hopefully the re-organization would be a sign of a renewed focus by Microsoft, and also hopefully it will not result in another lengthy delay while Microsoft reboots all its efforts.

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Paul

"Apparently on part precipitated by the likely departure of J Allard, CTO of the group, the division’s poor performance against rivals Apple and Google could see a much wider reshuffling of responsibilities in the area, with Wall Street Journal suggesting even Robbie Back, President for the group, may be at risk."

This could use a rewrite. And his name is Bach.

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I hope you appreciate the effort it took for me NOT to do the 'He'll be Bach' joke!

This could be dangerous for WP7. New bosses and new managers like to make their own mark; they could come in and start demanding myriad changes to WP7.

From blogs I've read of MS developers that's exactly how things work there; they have 57 managers who can, with little or no knowledge of the project, tell a developer to change something and then bugger off.

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