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/ Adam Richardson

Realignment of Microsoft

Microsoft President Steve Ballmer and Chairman and CEO Bill Gates outlined a fundamental realignment of the company designed to meet the needs of its customers well into the next decade.

Realignment of Microsoft hits the March 1999 news desk on March 29, 1999. Microsoft President Steve Ballmer and Chairman and CEO Bill Gates outlined a fundamental realignment of the company designed to meet the needs of its customers well into the next decade.

The two executives outlined a shift in its organizational structure to establish business divisions based on the requirements of core customers. The five divisions are the Business and enterprise division, which will focus on software technology for the information technology customer. It is not the loudest kind of gaming news, but the business and community machinery matters. Games do not appear out of thin air.