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Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer pushes first restructure in 5 years

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer speaks at a

Photo credit: AP | Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer speaks at a Microsoft event in San Francisco. (June 26, 2013)

Microsoft Corp. has decided its entire business needs a new operating system.

CEO Steve Ballmer is restructuring the company to cope with a quickening pace of technological change that has left the world's largest software maker a step behind its two biggest rivals, Apple and Google.

In an effort to catch up, Microsoft is dismantling a management structure that separated the company...

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