Is Steve Ballmer on his last legs?

In the wake of the major reorganisation by Microsoft announced on Friday - many are asking is this the desperate moves of a man trying to save his own skin?

Surely Steve Ballmer is now on borrowed time? Although the organisational changes do make sense, let’s not forget his recent but serious errors of judgement.

This is the man who said that the iPhone would not get “any significant market share” and resulted in Microsoft arriving very late to the mobile and tablet market.

Throw in the lukewarm reception to Windows 8 – you have to think, is it time Microsoft moved on without out him?

But, for the foreseeable future it would seem that Ballmer is here to stay, and also most of the other management too with no redundancies announced and most members just reshuffling.

The main focus of this is so the companies “strategy will focus on creating a family of devices and services” rather than the Bill Gates motto that Microsoft is a “software and services” company.

Whatever the reasons, Microsoft has to hope this restructure is more than just a metaphoric throw of the dice and will solve its main problem.

The fact it has continually failed to make its products and services work as effortlessly as it does for Google and Apple hardware, software and online offerings.

Other concerns such as Microsoft’s continuous backtracking will do little to ease consumers never mind potential businesses. That Hotmail became Windows Live, and now Outlook.com. Or Windows 8 has a Skype app but it does not work well with Windows 8.

Let’s not forget that Microsoft owns a bit of Facebook but there is no Facebook app for Windows 8 – are just a few of the issues at hand.

According to Techradar.com the new slogan of “One Microsoft” appears to be pure cheese, but the principal idea is sound.

They need to find a way of making their technology and know-how work together, as Microsoft is no longer in an age where it can be solely reliant upon sales of Windows.

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