Pavan Davuluri, an alumnus of IIT Madras, has been appointed as the new head of Microsoft Windows and Surface. This appointment marks another instance of an Indian professional assuming a leadership role at a major tech company, similar to Sundar Pichai at Google and Satya Nadella at Microsoft.
Mr. Davuluri replaces Panos Panay, who served as the longtime product chief but left the department to join Amazon last year. Previously, Mr. Davuluri was responsible for overseeing the Surface group, while Mikhail Parakhin led the Windows department. Following the departures of Mr. Parakhin and Mr. Panay, Mr. Davuluri has assumed leadership of both the Windows and Surface departments.
An internal memo from Rajesh Jha, Microsoft’s head of experiences and devices, obtained by The Verge, outlined the new organizational structure. He stated that this decision will enable the organization to adopt a “holistic approach” in developing its devices and experiences in the “AI era.”
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Who is Pavan Davuluri?
Pavan Davuluri previously oversaw Microsoft’s hardware endeavours. He will now be in charge of Windows engineering as well in a reshuffle following the departure of ex-Windows and Surface chief Panos Panay last September. At the time, Panas Panay’s role was split between Pavan Davuluri and Mikhail Parakhin. The latter took charge of Windows, alongside his existing responsibilities as CEO of Web and Advertising at Microsoft. He looked after products such as Bing, Edge, and Copilot.
Pavan Davuluri has been behing Microsoft’s efforts to optimize Windows for Arm-based devices. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he earlier shared, “Today, we announced our first ever #Surface AI PCs built exclusively for business: Surface Pro 10 for Business and Surface Laptop 6 for Business! I’m incredibly proud of the team for the work they did to bring these devices and experiences to life for our customers #Copilot.”
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What is changing at Microsoft?
Microsoft recently appointed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as CEO of a new AI division. With this Mikhail Parakhin’s team has been absorb into the new AI division. This comes as Microsoft is expect to unveil new next-generation AI features and Arm-based Surface hardware soon.
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