I wish to share an replace on the Home windows and Internet Experiences (WWE) workforce 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 wish to thank him for all he has performed 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 modification, 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 may allow us to take a holistic method to constructing silicon, methods, experiences, and units that span Home windows shopper and cloud for this AI period. Pavan Davuluri will lead this workforce and proceed to report back to me. Shilpa Ranganathan and Jeff Johnson and their groups will report on to Pavan. The Home windows workforce will proceed to work carefully with the Microsoft AI workforce on AI, silicon, and experiences.
The Internet Experiences workforce 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 workforce on the right way to realign Home windows design.
Ali Akgun, Kya Sainsbury-Carter, Qi Zhang, and Rajesh Sundaram’s roles stay unchanged. They may be part of the Microsoft AI management workforce together with Jordi, Mike, and Rukmini, all reporting to Mustafa.
We’re excited for this workforce to assist Microsoft AI obtain its daring ambition to construct world-class client AI merchandise. And I very a lot stay up for carefully partnering with Mustafa and the workforce as we convey our AI merchandise, together with Copilot, to the breadth of our E+D services.
Thanks,
Rajesh