Windows Mobile

Microsoft planning on a shakeup that will split its mobile and gaming business into two sections, which was not supposed to be together in the first place. This an attempt to reclaim a leading position in the Smartphone market, a position that’s largely slipped away in the face of competition from Apple and Google. There is a good possibility that this shakeup could unleash the company’s mobile device efforts. Now the million dollar question is, whether this decision is on time or too late. In this shakeup Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices group (Microsoft’s highest paid executive), will retire from Microsoft later this year, the company announced Tuesday. Bach won’t be replaced. Instead the two deputy executives who head both units will report directly to Ballmer from June 1st, 2010. Microsoft was being outpaced, out-developed and out-marketed by longtime rivals such as Apple, and even worse by brand-new mobile platforms like Android. First Apple’s widely successful iPhone and then Google’s Android mobile OS, it’s seems Microsoft’s nightmare is a never ending epic. Its aging Windows Mobile platform was, and is, shrinking in market share. Which Microsoft certainly wishes to change and make a dramatic comeback! The good…