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.it was hiring former DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as the head of a new organization called Microsoft AI.
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 aI want to share an update on the Windows and Web Experiences team following last week's announcement and the creation of the Microsoft AI organization.
As part of this change, we are bringing together the Windows Experiences and Windows + Devices teams as a core part of the Experiences + Devices 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.