The biggest and boldest move in the Feb. 5 reorg being announced internally today involves the Windows Experience (client) and the hardware teams. Microsoft is going to roll up these two businesses into a single team, known as Windows and Devices — reporting to Chief Product Officer Panos Panay, I’ve confirmed with a person familiar with the changes who asked not to be named. The move takes effect on Feb. 25.
This means even tighter integration between the people designing and building Surface devices and the people developing Windows. Panay is the driving force behind the Surface products, and those have been doing relatively well, so it makes sense to allow him to take a stab at the future of Windows.
So they want to be Apple now ?
No, Apple actually has different leaders for hardware and software 😉
https://www.apple.com/leadership/
avgalen,
Wow, I thought apple was a one man crew since woz left. 🙂
Oh wait I forgot about jony ive, but he left too. Most everybody at apple is anonymous and expendable, it’s one of the things I wouldn’t like about working there. Perhaps it’s gotten better under tim cook though.
Sounds more like prep work for layoffs.
More integration “features” coming, no doubt. Even more “good news” for those of us who don’t give a flying fuck about the Surface or the touch crap they’ve been pushing onto the system ever since Windows 8.