[VieElm]

Microsoft is separating applications and Windows. Is that a new thing? Does this mean Outlook and Office are no longer part of the same internal organizational structures when they used to be? I think if this is true and a new development that's going to be very good for Microsoft. I feel like Windows, while still a great workhorse OS has been like a anchor weighing Microsoft applications down on other platforms.

[amogrr]

Outlook and Office are part of the Applications and Services Group. Windows was the Operating Systems Group. It's been this way since 2013

[WalterGR]

Were Windows and Office ever part of the same org? I don't believe so - at least in this century. In fact, my understanding is that the antitrust consent decree required a separation between the OS and applications orgs.

[VOYD]

Didn't Sinofsky go to Windows, after his rein in Office?

[ryanburk]

yes, but he didn't bring office with him to windows.

[ryanburk]

no, even before the antitrust fun they were always separate business divisions / orgs.