Microsoft picks company veteran Pavan Davuluri to lead Windows and Surface
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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. 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, Microsofts technology chief, executive Rajesh Jha wrote in a memo, which was published earlier by The Verge. 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.