Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is telling employees that a reorganization plan by departing Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer will go ahead, seeking to reassure senior managers who are concerned that the search for a successor will throw turnaround efforts into disarray. Some members of Microsoft’s senior leadership team e-mailed their...
Read MoreMicrosoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) is so eager to have a panoply of applications for the next version of its Windows operating system that it has lined up design firms, recruited interns and sent engineers on an around-the-world road show to help developers get them built. Unlike Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), which run the world’s largest app stores, Microsoft doesn’t have the luxury of waiting for programmers to come knocking when they want to create downloadable games, productivity tools or online magazines for its computer software. As Microsoft struggles to keep up with a technology...
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