Microsoft picks company veteran Pavan Davuluri to lead Windows and Surface

Microsoft
said
Monday
it
has
selected
company
veteran
Pavan
Davuluri
to
lead
its
Windows
operating
system
and
Surface
devices
teams.

Davuluri,
who
joined
Microsoft
in
2001
and
has
been
corporate
vice
president
for
almost
three
years,
is
taking
on
additional
responsibilities
after
Panos
Panay

decamped
to

Amazon
last
fall.

Windows
remains
critical
to
Microsoft.
Its
clients
take
into
consideration
their
reliance
on
Windows
when
deciding
which
cloud
infrastructure
to
use
for
information-technology
projects.
That’s
true
even
as
Microsoft
and
other
public
companies
adjust
their
stance
to
capitalize
on
interest
in
generative
artificial
intelligence.

Davuluri’s
promotion
comes
a
week
after
Microsoft

said
it
was
hiring
former
DeepMind
co-founder
Mustafa
Suleyman
as
the
head
of
a
new
organization
called
Microsoft
AI.
Mikhail
Parakhin,
CEO
of
advertising
and
web
services,
and
his
unit
that
includes
people
working
on
the
Bing
search
engine
and
Edge
browser,
will
be
part
of
Microsoft
AI,
the
company
said.

Parakhin
will
now
look
at
other
roles
and
report
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
proud
of
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
known
as
Twitter.

I
want
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
new
roles.
Satya
and
I
are
grateful
for
Mikhail’s
contributions
and
leadership
and
want
to
thank
him
for
all
he
has
done
to
help
Microsoft
lead
in
the
new
AI
wave.
He
will
report
to
Kevin
Scott
while
supporting
the
WWE
transition.

As
part
of
this
change,
we
are
bringing
together
the
Windows
Experiences
and
Windows
+
Devices
teams
as
a
core
part
of
the
Experiences
+
Devices
(E+D)
division.
This
will
enable
us
to
take
a
holistic
approach
to
building
silicon,
systems,
experiences,
and
devices
that
span
Windows
client
and
cloud
for
this
AI
era.
Pavan
Davuluri
will
lead
this
team
and
continue
to
report
to
me.
Shilpa
Ranganathan
and
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
Experiences
team
will
report
into
Mustafa
in
the
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
Advertising
with
Paul
Viola
and
Weiqing
Tu
reporting
to
her.
Mike
Davidson
continues
to
lead
Design
and
will
work
with
Pavan
and
team
on
how
to
realign
Windows
design.

Ali
Akgun,
Kya
Sainsbury-Carter,
Qi
Zhang,
and
Rajesh
Sundaram’s
roles
remain
unchanged.
They
will
join
the
Microsoft
AI
leadership
team
along
with
Jordi,
Mike,
and
Rukmini,
all
reporting
to
Mustafa.

We
are
excited
for
this
team
to
help
Microsoft
AI
achieve
its
bold
ambition
to
build
world-class
consumer
AI
products.
And
I
very
much
look
forward
to
closely
partnering
with
Mustafa
and
the
team
as
we
bring
our
AI
products,
including
Copilot,
to
the
breadth
of
our
E+D
products
and
services.