Microsoft Corp. stated its chief product officer is leaving, a big departure for the corporate’s {hardware} and Home windows divisions.
Panos Panay will keep lengthy sufficient to assist his replacements transition into the position, Rajesh Jha, government vp of the experiences and units group, introduced in an e-mail to workers on Monday.
Panay, who had been with Microsoft since 2004, was central to the corporate’s {hardware} efforts in his position main the Floor laptop division and most just lately heading the Home windows unit. Pavan Davuluri is being tapped to supervise working techniques, units and chips associated to desktop shoppers, cloud and synthetic intelligence. Yusuf Mehdi will work with computer-maker and retail partnerships, Jha stated.
“Thanks, Panos, to your affect on our merchandise, tradition, firm, and business over the previous twenty years,” Chief Government Officer Satya Nadella stated in an announcement, including that the corporate will “stay steadfast and convicted in our technique.”
Panay served as common supervisor for Floor when the preliminary tablets, Microsoft’s first piece of laptop {hardware}, have been launched in 2012. Since then, he’s led an enlargement into laptops, desktops and equipment. The units attracted comparisons to Apple, because of glitzy launch occasions and a give attention to element and high-quality design.
Extra just lately, Microsoft has scaled again the Floor operation, axing personnel and chopping slow-selling merchandise. The corporate’s HoloLens mixed-reality goggles venture, overseen by Panay since 2022, has additionally struggled, thanks partially to a delayed US Military contract.
The corporate’s “dedication” to Floor and the mixed-reality enterprise “stays unchanged,” Jha wrote in his e-mail.
Davuluri, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, is a vp in Home windows and System engineering and has led silicon and techniques integration. Mehdi has been at Microsoft for greater than 30 years and first got here to prominence as the top of selling campaigns for Web Explorer within the Nineties. Extra just lately he has held roles at Xbox, Home windows and Bing.
