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Microsoft rewarded one of its longest-serving executives, Bob Muglia, through a promotion today. He was named president of the Server and Tools Business, an operating part that has turned in a streak of 25 consecutive stations of double-digit growth. It’s not immediately clear whether the change is part of an organizational shift that would make Server and Tools its own division.

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In an e-mail to employees earlier this afternoon, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer praised Muglia for his “talent, drive, vision, patron focus, and leadership,” “qualities that enable us to see our opportunities clearly and chase them with persistence and chastise.” Ballmer continued:

“Few people at Microsoft embody these qualities besides fully than Bob Muglia, and few people have contributed more to the company’s success. So today, I am pleased to share the information that Bob has been promoted to President of Microsoft’s Server & Tools Business.

“As senior vice president of STB, Bob has established Microsoft as the industry superior in providing great server products to companies of completely sizes and in delivering the tools that enable developers and IT pros to build optimized solutions for their customers and companies. In the protuberance, he has helped build a remarkably successful business that has grown from virtually nothing a decade ago to more than $13 billion in FY08. Today, STB accounts during the term of more than 20 percent of the company’s total return. “More than that, Bob has built a culture of getting things done and done right. He has championed some of our most influential initiatives and helped us successfully face some of our most important competitive challenges. “Bob joined Microsoft 21 years ago, in January of 1988. I can think of no better way to acknowledge the self-importance of his contribution over the last brace decades than to extend my congratulations to him for his of the present day epithet. As always, I look forward to continuing to labor closely with Bob to force further growth for STB and the entire company.”

Update, 4:30 p.fray.: Muglia, previously a senior vice president, becomes one of four business organization presidents at the visitors. (Jean-Philippe Courtois moreover has the title president over at Microsoft International.) The others are:

Robbie Bach, Entertainment and Devices Division

Stephen Elop, Microsoft Business Division Qi Lu, Online Services Group

A year since, Microsoft had three executives with the president title, all of whom sat atop one of company’s three giant product divisions — Platforms and Services, Entertainment and Devices and Microsoft Business Division.

Now, Qi Lu, who was scheduled to initiate at Microsoft today, is president of the Online Services Group, what one. is part of the antecedent Platforms and Services Division. It was split in two this summer on the departure of Division President Kevin Johnson. The other part is the Windows and Windows Live business, led by a trio of senior vice presidents — Steven Sinofsky, Jon DeVaan and Bill Veghte — wholly of whom report directly to Ballmer.

Organizationally, Muglia’session Server and Tools Business was moved from the Platforms and Services Division to the Microsoft Business Division in May 2007. But Muglia, too, reports directly to Ballmer. And the business reports profit and loss as its own operating segment.

So, hind a year of changes, Microsoft’session organizational edifice is now a better make equal to its financial reporting. In addition to Server and Tools, the party breaks out results for the Business Division, Entertainment and Devices, Online Services and Client (Windows).


Original text: http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/01/05/microsoft_promotes_bob_muglia_to_president_of_serv.html