I am pretty sure they will not be splitting up the company. Bill may be gone but I am certain he took care of a few things and one of them was to insure his baby was kept together. He’s fought hard to have it remain in one piece and I doubt they will ever do this.

Then again just how big could they get before someone forced them to split?

Would Microsoft ever split itself up? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Conventional wisdom has it that Microsoft’s brass would never choose to break up the company — even in the name of making it more agile.

After all, when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, as part of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Redmond, ruled in 2000 that Microsoft should be forced to be halved (into an operating system and application company — a judgement later overruled — Chairman Bill Gates & Co. was dead-set against such a plan.

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