Microsoft Reorganizes to Fuel Cloud and A.I. Businesses
In an email to employees, Mr. Nadella cited the central role of cloud computing
and the advances in artificial intelligence — and their potential across all the company’s products.
Other engineers will create the user applications — “Windows experiences,” in Microsoft terms —
that ride on top of the underlying software, in smartphones, tablets, personal computers and game consoles.
The moves, analysts said, were part of a reorganization intended to accelerate Microsoft’s emphasis
on newer, faster-growing businesses like cloud computing and data-fueled artificial intelligence.
The organizational overhaul, Mr. Nadella wrote, “enables us to step up to this opportunity.”
Terry Myerson, 45, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Windows and devices group, will be departing.