Microsoft said Monday it has chosen company veteran Pavan Davuluri to guide its Windows operating system and Surface devices teams.
Davuluri, who joined Microsoft in 2001 and has been corporate vp for nearly three years, is taking up additional responsibilities after Panos Panay decamped to Amazon last fall.
Windows stays critical to Microsoft. Its clients think about their reliance on Windows when deciding which cloud infrastructure to make use of for information-technology projects. That is true whilst Microsoft and other public firms adjust their stance to capitalize on interest in generative artificial intelligence.
Davuluri’s promotion comes per week after Microsoft said it was hiring former DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as the pinnacle of a latest organization called Microsoft AI. Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of promoting and web services, and his unit that features people working on the Bing search engine and Edge browser, can be a part of Microsoft AI, the corporate said.
Parakhin will now take a look at other roles and report back to Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s technology chief, executive Rajesh Jha wrote in a memo, which was published earlier by The Verge.
Microsoft revealed its first Surface PCs with a Copilot button for quickly accessing the chatbot in Windows last week. “I’m incredibly happy with the team for the work they did to bring these devices and experiences to life for our customers,” Davuluri wrote in a post on X, formerly generally known as Twitter.
I would like to share an update on the Windows and Web Experiences (WWE) team following last week’s announcement and the creation of the Microsoft AI organization.
Mikhail Parakhin has decided to explore latest roles. Satya and I are grateful for Mikhail’s contributions and leadership and need to thank him for all he has done to assist Microsoft lead in the brand new AI wave. He’ll report back to Kevin Scott while supporting the WWE transition.
As a part of this transformation, we’re bringing together the Windows Experiences and Windows + Devices teams as a core a part of the Experiences + Devices (E+D) division. This can enable us to take a holistic approach to constructing silicon, systems, experiences, and devices that span Windows client and cloud for this AI era. Pavan Davuluri will lead this team and proceed to report back to me. Shilpa Ranganathan and Jeff Johnson and their teams will report on to Pavan. The Windows team will proceed to work closely with the Microsoft AI team on AI, silicon, and experiences.
The Web Experiences team will report into Mustafa in the brand new Microsoft AI organization.
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 guide Design and can work with Pavan and team on how you can realign Windows design.
Ali Akgun, Kya Sainsbury-Carter, Qi Zhang, and Rajesh Sundaram’s roles remain unchanged. They’ll join the Microsoft AI leadership team together with Jordi, Mike, and Rukmini, all reporting to Mustafa.
We’re excited for this team to assist Microsoft AI achieve its daring ambition to construct world-class consumer AI products. And I very much stay up for closely partnering with Mustafa and the team as we bring our AI products, including Copilot, to the breadth of our E+D services.
