Microsoft Reorganizes And Splits Company Into New Divisions

In an e-mail sent out to employees titled "One Microsoft", CEO Steve Ballmer has detailed the new organizational setup for the entire company. The new division separations and realignments will split the Xbox One product within an Engineering department and more. The company's divisions will include Marketing, Business Development, Evangelism, Engineering, Research, Financial and more. The interesting part is that the Engineering unit will be comprised of four separate units within it; Operating Systems, Applications and Services, Cloud and Enterprise and Devices and Studio. With different people heading up the various divisions, and a given division no longer covering all the aspects of its domain, it may have implications on how all the aspects of the Xbox One (OS, games, hardware) will come together seamlessly prior to its launch.

Some vocabulary

Here are written and defined the most important words that we learned.

These are words used on system and technological environments.

Wireless: It's the transfer of information made by two or more points without wires that join one another.

Source Code: The source code is the main component of any program or application

IT:Information Technologies, it can be summarized just as many information related to technnological matters.

Bug: Any problem that any software application or program could present, at must be fixed.

Program: It's written by programers with rules or proccedures, to support customers activities and satisfy single or various needs, a program belongs to a full suite of tools available on different packages.

Application: It's one single and smaller (compared to a program) tool, it's functions are almost the same that a program, help users with a specify need.

Driver: A program that tells your computer what to do and communicates with the peripheral devices.

Shareware: Copyrighted software that is available free of charge on a trial, sometimes with the condition that users pay for continued use and support.

GUI: An interface for used to send commands to a computer utilizing a pointing device, such as a mouse, that manipulates and activates images and icons on a monitor.

User friendly: A program, application or even an OS that it's very easy to use to all type of users, without the need of a user manual or learn how to use thr program first.

License: Is a legal process that controls the usage and redistribution of software.

Freeware: I'ts software that is available for free use at no cost.

OS: Operating system.

Intuitive: A program of application that doesn´t need to much interactions with the user to complete a task, this makes it easier to use.

Software quality: It's the measure of how well software is designed and how well the software corresponds to that desing.






Software standards: It's a measure on how should be design and programmed any software, having on consideration the client needs.

Software Life Cycle: As the title shows, the software life cycle explains and defines the activities that must take place in order to desing, implement, verify and mantain any software that has quality standards.

Developer: A person in charge of programing computers or design the system to match the requirements given by the system analyst.

Command Interface Line: Is a mechanism for interacting with a computer operating system or software by typing commands to perform specific tasks.

Tester: The person in charge of take different tests to the developed software, to evaluate it's quality standards and functionality in order to discover bugs before show the product to the client.

Considerations on O.S.S and property software

I was surfing on the internet reading artibles and watching some videos, and on my search, I found this one: Why use open source software.

After watching the whole video, I was impressed with how many information, we ignore about O.S.S and also on how wide and fast it's spreading the O.S.S. Considering that doesn't really matter if you feel agree with the usage of the O.S.S the facts exposed on the video are amazing, but we need to understand two facts before consider or think anything:

1.The video was a part of Linux company publicity on their products and services, one way or the other it's part of the video to "sell".

2.One of the most important components of the software, no matter what is to solve the clients needs, one of the most important is the cost that software could have, there are may activities that must take place and be executed properly to generate software with the needed level of quality.

Considering this is clearer to see that you must think first on the clients needs or even your own needs, at the time you want to choose between the O.S.S or the property software.

Reading about open source software

Read the following article "Has open source technology grown" and fill the blanks using the key words, learned from the article.

We wish you all good luck, also enjoy the reading.