Major corporate reorganization
The reshuffling would create four basic groups at the Redmond, Wash., company: Consumer, Enterprise, Developers and Knowledge Workers. The divisions emphasize customer bases instead of technologies -- a decision made by S. Ballmer, the report said. A spokeswoman for Microsoft acknowledged a plan was being developed that could take effect in March, adding that details of the reorganization have not been fully decided on. Microsoft confirmed two weeks ago that it will extend the Windows 9x consumer platform well into the future despite two years of pledging to move the Windows OS entirely to the corporate NT kernel.