Mr. Ballmer or the announcement this month of a major restructuring of Microsoft panic

The source said that in connection with the business and reorganization of personnel, Mr. Ballmer was only consulted with a small group of senior executives, most of them directly reporting to him and a number of Microsoft directors, many people do not know, so worried about whether their posts in the reorganization of the security.

It is rumoured that the restructuring that is brewing in the company of Ballmer may create four separate divisions: Enterprise business, hardware, applications and services, and operating system departments. The operating system may be led by Terry Myerson, the head of Windows Phone, and Julie Larson-green, head of the Windows Engineering Department, according to a Bloomberg report earlier.

According to Theverge, Microsoft's new architecture will focus on further integrating Windows and Windows Phone's two major operating systems. As early as last October, Microsoft Windows Phone switched to a shared kernel with Windows 8, but the app store for the two operating systems was still separate from the need for developers to do the necessary fine-tuning to make the application run smoothly on two operating systems.

The content of Mr Ballmer's reorganization is unknown. A person familiar with the matter said the restructuring was very large, "Ballmer may be the result of his reorganization as the legacy of Microsoft," In addition, this is the first time Microsoft has made it feel that the executive may leave the reorganization.

Earlier, executives such as Windows Director Sinofsky had left Microsoft. Microsoft's last large-scale restructuring was in the 2008 years of the financial crisis.

AllThingsD reported that in the reorganization, some of the executive's authority may be expanded, and some other operations will be restructured. In addition, there will be a large number of senior management turnover.

Last year, Ballmer announced that Microsoft will be transformed into a "equipment and services" Company, which means Microsoft will follow Apple's combination of soft and hard vertical integration route, this major transformation shocked the industry, but it is not clear whether the new round of restructuring will continue this strategic direction.