{"id":577601,"date":"2010-05-25T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=16665"},"modified":"2010-05-25T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:15:47","slug":"microsoft-entertain-and-devices-division-re-org-in-the-offing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577601","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Entertain and Devices Division re-org in the offing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Shake up\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shake up\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sodacanshakeup6509.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is soon to undertake a major re-organization of their Entertainment and Devices Division, the home of Windows Phone, Zune and the XBox 360.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently on part precipitated by the likely departure of J Allard, CTO of the group, the division\u2019s poor performance against rivals Apple and Google could see a much wider reshuffling of responsibilities in the area, with Wall Street Journal suggesting even Robbie Back, President for the group, may be at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Devices have become an expected front in the OS war, after Microsoft successfully fended off challenges in the desktop, netbook and server front from OS\u2019s like Linux and&#160; OSX.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the re-organization would be a sign of a renewed focus by Microsoft, and also hopefully it will not result in another lengthy delay while Microsoft reboots all its efforts.<\/p>\n<p> Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704113504575265110872287930.html\" >Wall Street Journal here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/05\/24\/wsj-microsofts-entertainment-and-devices-division-getting-a-s\/\" >Engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6210711459792056\";\n\/* 336x280, created 1\/7\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0551502062\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is soon to undertake a major re-organization of their Entertainment and Devices Division, the home of Windows Phone, Zune and the XBox 360. Apparently on part precipitated by the likely departure of J Allard, CTO of the group, the division\u2019s poor performance against rivals Apple and Google could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}