Overview
- Business Insider reports that Satya Nadella is framing AI as both an existential threat and a generational opportunity, pushing a company‑wide rethink of how Microsoft operates.
- Nadella launched a weekly AI accelerator meeting and a Teams channel that elevate front‑line technical voices to speed experimentation and cut top‑down gatekeeping.
- New marching orders urge senior leaders to act like individual contributors, with a shift toward an AI‑driven “production function” that changes how software is built and scaled.
- Judson Althoff was promoted to lead Microsoft’s commercial business, a move intended to free Nadella to focus on datacenter buildout, systems architecture, AI science, and product innovation.
- Insiders say longtime executives Rajesh Jha and Charlie Bell may be weighing retirement, though spokesperson Frank Shaw says Microsoft does not expect near‑term changes to its senior leadership team.