Davuluri worked at Microsoft for more than 23 years (social networking sites)
Microsoft announced the appointment of Pavan Davuluri as the new president of Windows and Surface devices, succeeding Panos Panai after his sudden departure to Amazon last year, where the software giant then divided the Windows and Service groups under the management of two different leaders, according to what was reported by Reuters.
Davuluri takes over silicon and hardware work for Surface products, with Mikhail Parakhin leading a new team focused on Windows and web experiences.
With the new announcement, both Windows and Service were under Davuluri's responsibility, and Parakhin decided to explore new positions.
Rajesh Jha, head of Microsoft's Experience and Devices Division, outlined in an internal memo the broad outlines of the new Windows organization, according to Reuters.
Microsoft is now bringing together the Windows and devices teams again. “This allows us to take a holistic approach to building systems, experiences, and devices that span the Windows client and the cloud for the age of AI," Jha said.
Pavan Davuluri is now the leader of the Windows and Service team at Microsoft, reporting directly to Rajesh Jha.
Davuluri worked at Microsoft for more than 23 years, and was actively involved in the company's work with Qualcomm and AMD to create Surface processors.
Microsoft has appointed a group of Inflection AI employees, including the chief scientist in the artificial intelligence team (Reuters)
Mikhail Parakhin is now working under Kevin Scott during the transition, although his future at the company appears uncertain, and it is likely that the new positions he seeks will be outside the company.
Parakhin was working on Bing Chat before taking on broad Windows engineering responsibilities and changes to the Edge browser.
The changes come a few days after Mustafa Soliman, one of the founders of DeepMind and former CEO of Inflection AI, joined Microsoft as CEO of the new artificial intelligence team.
Microsoft has hired a group of Inflection AI employees, including Karen Simonyan, who is now the chief scientist on the artificial intelligence team within the software giant.
As a result, most Inflection AI employees are joining Microsoft in what is seen as a talent acquisition that avoids direct regulatory scrutiny.
Suleiman is now CEO of the AI team, a new team that handles the company's consumer-facing AI products, such as CoPilot, Bing, and Edge.
Solomon reports directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Jha says the Windows team is working with the AI team on AI, silicon, and experiments.
Source: Reuters + websites