Chief Executive Officer Microsoft, Satya Nadella, via an e-mail, to the executives of the company, announced a series of administrative changes.
First, Phil Spencer is promoted to the head of Xbox and Xbox Live, who will report to the head of the Windows department, Terry Myerson, and will be responsible for all Xbox console software.
Spencer's promotion comes as a result of the recent departure of Xbox head, Marc Whitten.
The next administrative change concerns the appointment of Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President for Cloud and Business, who has been in the same position for the past two months as interim Vice-President.
Guthrie has been with Microsoft for the past 15 years, has worked on the development of related cloud products, and is considered to have excellent relationships with the cloud community. developers.
The third change is in fact a confirmation. This is the confirmation of Microsoft's assumption of office by former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.
According to Nadella's email, Elop will assume the role of Executive Vice President of the Devices Division, immediately following the completion of themarket of Nokia, which is expected to happen within April.
Elop's duties will include products such as Windows Phone, Surface and Xbox hardware, and will report directly to Satya Nadella.
The changes announced by Microsoft's CEO come just days before the Build for Developers conference in San Francisco.
As Satya Nadella emphasized in his message, these changes were made to help the company achieve its new goals which are now expressed by the slogan "mobile devices-first, cloud-first'.
