I need to share an replace on the Home windows and Internet Experiences (WWE) staff following final week’s announcement and the creation of the Microsoft AI group.
Mikhail Parakhin has determined to discover new roles. Satya and I are grateful for Mikhail’s contributions and management and need to thank him for all he has accomplished to assist Microsoft lead within the new AI wave. He’ll report back to Kevin Scott whereas supporting the WWE transition.
As a part of this alteration, we’re bringing collectively the Home windows Experiences and Home windows + Units groups as a core a part of the Experiences + Units (E+D) division. This can allow us to take a holistic strategy to constructing silicon, techniques, experiences, and gadgets that span Home windows consumer and cloud for this AI period. Pavan Davuluri will lead this staff and proceed to report back to me. Shilpa Ranganathan and Jeff Johnson and their groups will report on to Pavan. The Home windows staff will proceed to work intently with the Microsoft AI staff on AI, silicon, and experiences.
The Internet Experiences staff will report into Mustafa within the new Microsoft AI group.
Jordi Ribas will lead Search, Maps, and Platforms with Andrey Proskurin, Fatima Kardar, and Nick Lee reporting to him.
Rukmini Iyer will lead Promoting with Paul Viola and Weiqing Tu reporting to her.
Mike Davidson continues to steer Design and can work with Pavan and staff on the way to realign Home windows design.
Ali Akgun, Kya Sainsbury-Carter, Qi Zhang, and Rajesh Sundaram’s roles stay unchanged. They are going to be part of the Microsoft AI management staff together with Jordi, Mike, and Rukmini, all reporting to Mustafa.
We’re excited for this staff to assist Microsoft AI obtain its daring ambition to construct world-class client AI merchandise. And I very a lot look ahead to intently partnering with Mustafa and the staff as we deliver our AI merchandise, together with Copilot, to the breadth of our E+D services.
Thanks,
Rajesh