Anonymous posting from inside MSFT:
“E&D is going through the biggest re-org the division has ever had. ERod has decided to pursue other opportunities effective immediately. TVM is no more. Windows Mobile is heading out of E&D and into Windows because Sinofsky pointed out Robbie’s continued failure in the mobile space during the December strategy review.”
This actually makes sense and should have been done much earlier to be consistent with their business model. WinMo was always a peculiar object in the E&D empire. It had a platform model but did not integrate with any of the other businesses (no interoperability with Zune, Xbox.) If they were to have built their own phone, maybe it would have something in common with the rest of the org. The other wild card is project Pink which seems to be a rogue entity. I have to say that none of this would have happened under Gates.
If the model is to concentrate on the platform, the economic value is dubious as Google already pulled the rug out on paid licenses.
