May 04, 2011
By Woody Leonhard | InfoWorld
Three months ago when I last blogged about the ongoing high-level turmoil at Microsoft (see "Geeks vs. suits: Microsoft's executive revolving door keeps spinning"), longtime president of the System and Tools Business Bob Muglia was headed to greener pastures, replaced by "Mr. Bing" Satya Nadella.
This week, Nadella instigated a re-org that moves a lot of people into very new positions. The key people reporting to Nadella -- Bill Laing at the Server and Cloud Division, Ted Kummert leading the Business Platform Division, and Soma Somasegar running the Developer Division -- remain the same. But the changes at the next level defy simplification. Suffice it to say, last week's organizational chart at System and Tools Business doesn't look anything at all like the one this week.
The changes more closely align Microsoft's org chart with the features coming up in Azure -- to a first approximation, anyway. As Nadella said in an internal memo on Monday, according to Mary Jo Foley: "The Windows Azure Platform will be our fully integrated public cloud service spanning compute, storage, networking, SQL, identity, commerce, application development platform & tools. In addition our next wave of releases across Windows Server, Systems Center and SQL Server will enable private cloud and mission critical virtualization features among other key customer scenarios."
There's one stunning change in all this. Scott Guthrie, currently vice president of the .Net Developer Platform, under Somasgar, is moving to work under Kummert as the VP of the newly created Azure Application Platform. In the process, the most visible proponent of Silverlight development -- both on the Web and on Windows Phone 7 -- is leaving Silverlight behind.
Guthrie speaks at all of the big developer conventions, including Windows Phone, Silverlight, and most recently MIX 11. You've probably seen a picture of him: Guthrie invariably wears a red polo shirt and blue jeans on stage.
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