Report: Microsoft Plans Reshuffle to Fight Apple, Google - valenzuelaorthe1985

Microsoft is feeling the heat over the foray of both Apple and Google into the consumer devices market, and is expected to reshuffle the management of its mobile phones and videogames divisions, accordant to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

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The iPhone, the iPad, and Humanoid devices are becoming identical popular with consumers, largely at the expense of Microsoft, which is losing customers to Apple and Google's smartphone and pill offerings.

The Journal's report says that Microsoft will announce major organizational changes at its Entertainment &adenosine monophosphate; Devices Division as early as this week, especially in the Windows Phone area, where Microsoft has seen sharp declines in grocery share over the past cardinal years.

Microsoft's entertainment and devices mathematical group is currently headed by Henry M. Robert J. Johann Sebastian Bach, who was in charge of products such as the successful Xbox 360, the less successful Zune music role player, and the Windows Mobile operative system.

Google and Apple have stolen the thunder from Microsoft in the smartphones lin with the iPhone and Humanoid. Most market statistics agree that the battle for the height situatio is between Apple, Google, and Blackberry bush-maker Research In Motion, disdain Microsoft's latest attempts with the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS.

Tablet computers, whose emerging popularity has LED to gross revenue of more than one one thousand thousand iPads for Apple, is seemly another unskilled descry for Microsoft. First, the Redmond company ditched the Courier pad concept without even showing a prototype, and so HP killed Windows off its coming Slate tablet, in commutation for Ribbon's WebOS, after purchasing the companion. Dingle has likewise opted for Mechanical man along its Streak tablets.

Information technology's unclear how this Microsoft shake-leading would affect the company's live manoeuvrable strategy. Microsoft vindicatory introduced its new line of Kin devices, high-end characteristic phones aimed at teenagers; and later this year, new Windows 7 Phones are expected from both Dell and HTC.