Microsoft Reorganizes to Fuel Cloud and A.I. Businesses<br />In an email to employees, Mr. Nadella cited the central role of cloud computing<br />and the advances in artificial intelligence — and their potential across all the company’s products.<br />Other engineers will create the user applications — “Windows experiences,” in Microsoft terms —<br />that ride on top of the underlying software, in smartphones, tablets, personal computers and game consoles.<br />The moves, analysts said, were part of a reorganization intended to accelerate Microsoft’s emphasis<br />on newer, faster-growing businesses like cloud computing and data-fueled artificial intelligence.<br />The organizational overhaul, Mr. Nadella wrote, “enables us to step up to this opportunity.”<br />Terry Myerson, 45, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Windows and devices group, will be departing.
