How to break up Microsoft: Maybe it’s not such a crazy idea

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What if someone could create three large, nimble and profitable tech companies out of thin air, building each of them around a well-known and successful technology brand? Each company would be big enough to be an industry leader, but not so giant as to be weighed down by a massive corporate bureaucracy or ties to legacy… Read More…

Microsoft vets weigh in: Here’s what needs to change

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Stephen Toulouse worked at Microsoft for 18 years before leaving earlier this year, so he read Kurt Eichenwald’s Vanity Fair piece on the company’s “Lost Decade” with a former insider’s eye. And he agrees with its assessment about Microsoft’s stack-ranking system, which evaluates and compensates employees in a way that artificially pits them against each other…. Read More…