Microsoft will announce this week several changes in the management of its Entertainment and Devices Division in an attempt to position the department responsible for telephone and consoles in a better place compared to its current rivals, Apple and Google.
James Allard, one of the great responsible for the launch of the first Xbox was leaving the company by its differences with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, because of the cancellation of his personal project, Courier based on a double touch screen tablet PC, which was attended to compete against Apple’s iPad.
Today the Wall Street Journal has provided a report which suggests a complete restructuring of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft, responsible for brand of Xbox, PC games, Zune device and mobile operating systems. A division has reported to the Microsoft company $ 165 million in the first quarter of fiscal year.
The Entertainment and Devices Division is the fourth largest operating units of Microsoft, behind Windows, Office and Server, and revenue forecasts for this fiscal year, which ends on June 30, is 8,000 million dollars.
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