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microsoft The company announced Monday that it has selected company veteran Pavan Davuluri to lead its Windows operating systems and Surface device teams.
Mr. Davuluri joined Microsoft in 2001 and has served as corporate vice president for almost three years, taking on additional responsibilities following the retirement of Panos Panay. Amazon last fall.
Windows remains important to Microsoft. The company’s clients consider their dependence on Windows when deciding which cloud infrastructure to use for their information technology projects. This is true even as Microsoft and other publicly traded companies adjust their stance to capitalize on interest in generative artificial intelligence.
Davuluri’s promotion comes a week after Microsoft announced it was hiring former DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleiman to lead a new organization called Microsoft AI. Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of advertising and web services, and his division, which includes people who work on the Bing search engine and Edge browser, will become part of Microsoft AI, the company said.
Parachin will now consider other roles and will report to Microsoft’s head of technology, Kevin Scott, executive Rajesh Jha wrote in a memo. The Verge.
Microsoft announced last week its first Surface PC with a Copilot button for quick access to Windows chatbots. “I’m extremely proud of the work our team has done to deliver these devices and experiences to our customers,” Davuluri wrote in the article. post X, formerly known as Twitter.
Following last week’s announcement and creation of the Microsoft AI organization, we’d like to share an update on the Windows and Web Experiences (WWE) team.
Mikhail Parakhin decided to look for a new role. Satya and I are grateful for Mikhail’s contributions and leadership and would like to thank him for all he has done to lead Microsoft in the new wave of AI. He will report directly to Kevin Scott and will support him in his transition to WWE.
As part of this change, we are combining the Windows Experience team and the Windows + Devices team into the core of the Experience + Devices (E+D) organization. This enables a holistic approach to building silicon, systems, experiences, and devices across Windows clients and the cloud for this AI era. Pavan Davuluri will lead this team and continue to report to me. Shilpa Ranganathan, Jeff Johnson and their teams will report directly to Pavan. The Windows team will continue to work closely with the Microsoft AI team on AI, silicon, and experiences.
The Web Experience team will report directly to Mustafa in the new Microsoft AI organization.
Jordi Rivas will lead search, maps and platforms, with Andrej Prosklin, Fatima Kardar and Nick Li reporting to him.
Rukmini Iyer will lead the advertising department alongside Paul Viola and Weiqing Tu and will report to her.
Mike Davidson will continue to lead design and work with Pavan and the team on ways to recalibrate Windows design.
The roles of Ali Akgun, Kya Sainsbury-Carter, Chee Chan and Rajesh Sundaram remain unchanged. They will join Jordi, Mike, and Rukmini on the Microsoft AI leadership team, all of whom will report to Mustafa.
We’re excited to help this team achieve Microsoft AI’s bold ambitions to build world-class consumer AI products. We are very much looking forward to working closely with Mustafa and his team as we bring his AI products, including Copilot, to our wide range of E+D products and services.