Microsoft Overhauls, the Apple Way - NYTimes.com

Excerpt from a stark and skeptical Microsoft snapshot

"The notion of organizing the company around the trinity of modern technology products — software, hardware and services — is most famously used by Apple. It is yet another sign of how deeply Apple’s way of doing things has seeped into every pore of the technology industry.
And in the process, some of the biggest technology companies are starting to look much more alike organizationally. The goal is to get thousands of employees to collaborate more closely, to avoid some duplication and, as a result, to build their products to work more harmoniously together."

Microsoft Overhauls, the Apple Way - NYTimes.com