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Reuters: Microsoft Splits Into Five Groups In Reorganization

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 29, 1999

“Software giant Microsoft Corp… Monday announced a
long-awaited reorganization, dividing the company into five major
groups and naming two veteran executives to head its online
operations.”

“In a statement, Microsoft said the new structure “more closely
maps to Microsoft’s core customers,” including business technology
managers, “knowledge workers,” software developers and
consumers.”

“The company also created a separate home and retail products
division to focus on consumer-targeted retail products such as
games, input devices and reference products.”

“This new structure is part of the reinvention of Microsoft,”
Ballmer said in a statement.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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