Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has handed off the Workplace, mobile and gaming businesses to three presidents and has decided to create the gaming and cellular models separate entities.Microsoft announced the executive modifications and appointments on October 1, and posted Ballmer;s e-mail to the enterprise;s staff covering the moves.People who had been expecting Windows President Steven Sinofsky to obtain the Mobile Communications Organization — as has been rumored for months — will be disappointed or relieved (depending on your perspective). Ballmer named Andy Lees the new President of the Cellular Communications Organization.Ballmer named Don Matrick President of the Interactive Entertainment Organization. Up until the resignation of President Robbie Bach, Microsoft had combined the cellular and gaming businesses into the Entertainment and Devices Division under Bach. Ballmer had been running the Entertainment and Devices division himself, with Matrick and Lees reporting directly to him, since earlier this summer.Ballmer also named Kurt DelBene the new President of the Microsoft Organization Division, the group that has included Workplace, SharePoint and the Microsoft ERP and CRM apps. DelBene takes the place of Steven Elop, who recently left Microsoft to run Nokia. However,
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