[Am-info] More on Mr Belluzzo

[Joe Moore]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:57:24AM -0400, Erick Andrews wrote:
> 
> All six main business segments will now report directly
> to Steve Ballmer, the current chief executive,
> effectively cutting out Mr Belluzzo.

According to The Register, MS will be organizing itself along the
following product lines:

Windows Client, 
Knowledge Worker, 
Server & Tools, 
Business Solutions, 
CE/Mobility, 
MSN and Home & Entertainment. 

How can these products be "inseparable" if they are created by separate
business units?  If Microsoft is trying to create independant business
units, how can breaking the company up along similar lines really hurt
the business, except that each would have to report its profitablility
separately?
I wonder where IE development will occur.

The non-seattling should pursue a real separation between these business
units, and aggressively demand that communication of APIs and other
information between them be made available to competitors also.

Competitors of the Windows Client (I guess this is where the "home" OSs will
reside) should have as much information about the Windows Server APIs as
the Windows Client group does.

--Joe