{"id":604434,"date":"2026-09-03T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604434\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:28:15","slug":"microsoft-famous-for-culty-jargon-is-naming-half-its-organization-agents-and-infra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604434\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, Famous for Culty Jargon, Is Naming Half Its Organization \u2018Agents and Infra\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s the already irksome world of general purpose corporate jargon, and then there\u2019s Microsoft, where dedication to saying things in a weird way borders on the religious. Add AI to the mix, and you get today\u2019s news: According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Microsoft will no longer be divided into these three pass\u00e9 reporting segments:<\/p>\n

Productivity and Business Processes Intelligent Cloud More Personal Computing <\/p>\n

Now the org chart will have just two hip, young divisions:<\/p>\n

Agents and Infra Devices and Consumer <\/p>\n

The Journal notes that according to CEO Satya Nadella, AI in particular is changing the structural boundaries within Microsoft. \u201cAgents and Infra,\u201d covers Microsoft\u2019s AI models, GitHub, Azure (its cloud infrastructure division), and Microsoft 365, which is saturated with Copilot features.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, \u201cDevices and Consumer\u201d covers Xbox and Windows, along with Microsoft\u2019s search and advertising divisions, meaning things like Bing and LinkedIn. If you squint, the segments make sense to an outsider, but if you don\u2019t squint they\u2019re a tad murky and inconsistent. (Are Microsoft 365 and Windows really siloed off from one another?) But I\u2019m sure from inside of Microsoft this all feels very natural and not weird at all.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of Steve Ballmer\u2019s tenure as CEO, Ballmer (who is in the news today<\/a> for unrelated reasons) famously tried to foster greater harmony within the fractured company by rolling out the culty term \u201cOne Microsoft,<\/a>\u201d a concept his successor, Nadella, is said to have worked toward achieving<\/a>. Well there\u2019s still one Microsoft, divided into two goofily named segments.<\/p>\n

Through the decades, the internal Microsoft slang that has crept out into the wider world has suggested a certain Ballmer-like zealotry<\/a>, with the most famous example being \u201ceating your own dogfood<\/a>\u201d or \u201cdogfooding\u201d to refer to using the software product you\u2019re developing. The slang also sometimes just weird. For instance, Microsoft internally uses a concept called the \u201caccountability margin<\/a>\u201d instead of the more familiar \u201cprofit margin.\u201d<\/p>\n

And which of the two halves makes more money? Per the Journal, that would be \u201cAgents and Infra\u201d which is projecting about $75 billion in revenue for the first quarter of next year. \u201cDevices and Consumer\u201d is projecting about $15 billion.<\/p>\n

Gizmodo asked Microsoft for comment. We will update if we hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s the already irksome world of general purpose corporate jargon, and then there\u2019s Microsoft, where dedication to saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,66567,25242,85,46,134,30916,273165,125],"class_list":["post-604434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bing","tag-copilot","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-microsoft","tag-satya-nadella","tag-steve-ballmer","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}