In the midst of its acquisition bid for Yahoo, Microsoft is set to announce — most likely on February 14 — its latest company-wide reorg.

According to sources, the still-unprofitable Online Services Business will be where the greatest number of changes will happen. As previously rumored, Online Services Group chief Steve Berkowitz is out. Oversight for the MSN business is moving to Satya Nadella, the current Corporate Vice President of Search and Advertising.

Corporate Vice President of Windows, Bill Veghte, is set to get all of Windows marketing consolidated under him, sources confirmed. Former head of Windows marketing, Mike Sievert, also will be leaving the company, as previously reported.

Post-reorg, Veghte also will have the business and marketing side of both Windows Live and Live Search reporting to him, my sources said. That means not just Windows Live General Manager Brian Hall and his team, but General Manager of Search Product Management and Marketing Brad Goldberg and his team allegedly move under Veghte. (Goldberg just left Windows for Live Search a year ago.)

(If you needed any more evidence that Windows and Windows Live/Live Search will be more closely tied, going forward, this reorg should make that clear….)

For the record, Microsoft, via its Waggener-Edstrom PR agency, declined to comment on anything regarding the alleged reorg.

It sounds from folks with whom I’ve spoken that all of these reorg cogs were already in motion before Microsoft made its bid to buy Yahoo on February 1. So to say that Microsoft made any of these changes in order to make way for the Yahoos is somewhat of a reach.

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