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It wasn’t until last February that Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay was promoted to head all of the company’s Windows software and device teams, and now he’s playing again in the world – he becomes executive vice president who will be part of the management team. who advises Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella himself, reports Bloomberg.
We’ve interviewed him several times over the years, and not just because he’s one of the faces of the company. Also, yes, it is he who is perpetually pumped.
From a business perspective, that means Windows will have a seat at the senior management table for the first time since former Windows chief Terry Myerson left in 2018, which makes sense: so, Nadella believed in moving from Windows to the cloud, but recently changed his mind.
The significance of this decision is unclear to Rajesh Jha, who was executive vice president of experiences and devices at Microsoft the last time we checked, or others on Microsoft’s leadership page, of elsewhere. This page appears to have recently been replaced with a smaller list of “executive officers” rather than the previous list of “senior executives”, but a number of other Microsoft executive vice presidents such as Xbox boss Phil Spencer and the Cloud + AI boss Scott Guthrie didn’t. have returned to the roster again, and there is no evidence that their roles have changed at all.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella himself has recently become more powerful than ever: in June he was unanimously elected to become chairman of the board in addition to CEO, the first person to have both. roles at Microsoft since Bill Gates himself.
Panay also joined the Sonos board late last year.
