[Am-info] More on Mr Belluzzo

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.04.04 12:43 PM, Joe Moore typed: ============

>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.

    Microsoft's organizational structure has always been for appearances 
only. People get promoted, moved around, divisions are created and 
destroyed. All on a weekly basis. I think things are operated this way: 
who ever Steve and Bill tell to do something this week do it. If they're 
told to do something else the next week, they do something else. If Jim 
from MSN has a Windows idea, he can contribute some to Windows. The only 
exception to this rule appears to be outlying units like the Mac Business 
Group.


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