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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Microsoft notified employees Wednesday about a big reorganization the affecting Windows and Devices businesses.</li><li>Business Insider obtained a leaked email Microsoft Executive Vice President of Experiences and Devices Rajesh Jha sent to employees on Wednesday.</li><li>The head of Microsoft's fast-growing Teams chat app is retiring.</li><li>The shakeup, effective Feb. 25, includes a big reorganization to merge the Windows Experience team and the Devices organization to become the Windows + Devices Team.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prime">Click here to read more BI prime stories.</a></li></ul>The head of Microsoft's fast-growing Teams chat app is retiring, amid a huge shakeup to the company's Windows and Device business, according to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider.The shakeup, effective Feb. 25, includes a broad reorganization that will merge the Windows Experience team and the Devices organization to become a unified Windows + Devices Team, reporting to Panos Panay. "The Windows + Devices Team will drive end-to-end people centered innovation including the entire Windows ecosystem," Microsoft Executive Vice President of Experiences and Devices Rajesh Jha said in the email sent to employees on Wednesday. "The joining of these teams will streamline the decision-making process to help us deliver the best device experience from silicon through the OS for our customers on OEM and Surface Devices."Brian MacDonald - the executive who runs Microsoft Teams chat app - is retiring and SharePoint and OneDrive chief Jeff Teper will take over the organization."Brian has created multiple product categories - starting as the founder of modern project management in Microsoft Project, bringing together email and personal information management as the founder of Microsoft Outlook and more recently with Microsoft Teams - the fastest growing business application that is a modern productivity hub," Jha wrote.MacDonald is known as the "father of Outlook," Microsoft's email product. He helped Microsoft develop Teams by taking a small group of engineers to his fruit plantation in Maui."In-between writing lines of code, the team spent their days hiking, riding tractors, picking food from the land, all to inspire new ways of thinking about the essence of teamwork, how technology can take collaboration to new levels, and what Microsoft could uniquely offer," Microsoft has said of the creation of Teams. "By the end, they left with the crystallizing idea that they wanted to build a service that made it frictionless for individuals and teams to create, collaborate and 'work in the open.'"Teams <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-teams-20-million-daily-active-users-slack-2019-11">has more than 20 million daily active users</a>, according to Microsoft - more than rival Slack, although Slack has taken issue with Microsoft's accounting since Teams comes automatically within Microsoft 365.Teper, meanwhile, is known as the "father of Sharepoint." He's corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud-based suite of productivity tools. Teper joined Microsoft in 1992 and runs design, product and engineering for products including core Office applications such as Word and Excel, OneDrive file storage system and collaboration platform SharePoint. Microsoft has yet to respond to a request for more information.<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-combine-its-windows-client-and-hardware-teams-under-chief-product-officer-panos-panay/">ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley earlier reported details of the Windows and Devices reorg.</a>As part of the reorganization, Joe Belfiore and Ales Holecek will lead Microsoft's Office/Office Experience Group team "as a product/engineering duo," Jha said.Kirk Koenigsbauer, who Jha said has been running Microsoft 365 product marketing and our customer solution areas for Modern Workplace and Security, will report to me directly to Jha as the chief operating officer for Experiences and Devices. Emma Williams will now directly report to Jha and join the Experience and Devices leadership team and continuing running the Office Verticals team and the Workplace Intelligence team from Microsoft 365.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/bi-intelligence-daily?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=ctgr_bii&amp;itm_term=ctgr_subscription&amp;itm_content=microsoft&amp;itm_campaign=bi-intelligence-daily"></a>

Leaked memo: The head of Microsoft's fast-growing Teams chat app is retiring, as Microsoft merges the Windows and hardware groups in a major reorg

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11895708" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="microsoft" source="Orion">Microsoft</keyword> is slowing <keyword id="11897160" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hiring" source="Orion">hiring</keyword> in its Windows, Office, and Teams divisions.</li><li>It joins a raft of <keyword id="6358815" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tech" source="Orion">tech</keyword> companies dialing back <keyword id="11921196" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="recruitment" source="Orion">recruitment</keyword> as the <keyword id="11893570" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="economy" source="Orion">economy</keyword> slows.</li></ul>Microsoft is pulling back on hiring in its Office, Windows, and Teams divisions, becoming the latest tech company to dial back recruitment as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/recession-warning-signs-advice-from-ceos-2022-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">fears of recession loom</a>.Executive Vice President Rajesh Jha sent an email to staff Thursday saying all new hires in the three divisions must be approved by him and his leadership team, a Microsoft spokesperson first told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26/microsoft-to-slow-hiring-in-windows-office-teams-chat-groups">Bloomberg</a>, adding that the policy didn't affect the whole company."As Microsoft gets ready for the new fiscal year, it is making sure the right resources are aligned to the right opportunity," a Microsoft spokesperson told Insider."Microsoft will continue to grow headcount in the year ahead and it will add additional focus to where those resources go," the spokesperson added.Microsoft joins a growing number of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/recession-2022-companies-prepare-economic-downturn-netflix-layoffs-meta-hiring-2022-5">companies in tech and other industries</a>s instructing managers to be more judicious with hiring.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-facebook-memo-details-hiring-freeze-negative-business-impacts-2022-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">Facebook is implementing a hiring freeze</a> through the rest of this year. A leaked email seen by Insider showed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-retail-business-hiring-target-cuts-leaked-email-2022-5">Amazon is cutting hiring targets</a>, while <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-freezes-most-hiring-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-plans-no-layoffs-2022-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">Uber has instituted a broad hiring freeze</a>.Microsoft appears to be focusing on employee retention, as the company announced on May 16 it plans to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-pay-raises-merit-increases-stock-grants-2022-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">increase staff pay through salary increases and larger stock grants</a>.Some Microsoft staffers are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-pay-raises-cloud-employee-skepitcism-2022-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">skeptical the increase will help keep talent at the company</a>, as they believe it doesn't measure up to pay offered by Microsoft's competitor Amazon, which in February doubled its maximum base salary to $350,000.Microsoft did not immediately respond when contacted by Insider for comment.

Microsoft is slowing hiring in its Windows, Office, and Teams divisions

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Tel-Aviv based online gift card marketplace, Zeek, has raised $9.5 million in Series B round of financing led by Scale-Up Venture Capital. The round also saw participation from Blumberg Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, FJ LABS (Fabrice Grinda), Waze founder Uri Levine, Emery Capital, Ton Ventures, Radiant Venture Capital, iAngels and Target Global. Zeek stated that the investment will further be used in growth and expansion overseas. 
 
Founded by Daniel Zelkind, Ziv Isaiah, Uri Levine, Itay Erel and Pierre Schurmann in 2013, the company works as a mobile app and website that allows users to buy gift cards and vouchers from their favourite brands at a discount and sell unwanted gift vouchers for cash, providing a solution to the estimated $100 billion of unused gift cards globally. 
 
Agritech Startup Dealing in Deep Learning Capabilities Secure $7M 
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Square Plums, shared accommodation startup, gas closed $446,000 in a round led by Indian Angel Network (IAN), and VGN Prakash, Amitabh Shrivastava, Krishna Jha and Ravindra Krishnappa. As a part of contract, VGN Prakash will be joining the board of the company. 
 
Founded by Rajesh Kumar Kotta, Hemant Attray and Krishna Jha in 2015, the startup provides fully furnished houses to bachelors, and also helps users to find a roommate. It also helps owners by letting out a fully furnished house with up to 50% higher rentals without even spending on furnishing the house. 
 
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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Bing chief Mikhail Parakhin is leaving the role and will report to Microsoft's CTO in the meantime.</li><li>Parakhin led the advertising businesses, in addition to his work on the search engine.</li></ul>Microsoft is again playing musical chairs as another reshuffle of its key teams gets underway.Days after Satya Nadella announced he was bringing Inflection AI's cofounder Mustafa Suleyman into the mix as its EVP and CEO of Microsoft AI, Mikhail Parakhin has "decided to explore new roles."<a target="_blank" href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111931/microsoft-windows-surface-pavan-davuluri">The Verge</a> reported the news, citing an internal memo.Parakhin, who led the company's Bing search engine and advertising businesses, will report to Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott.Pavan Davuluri, who ran its Surface and devices work, will be head of both Microsoft's Windows and Surface teams as part of the leadership rejig.Rajesh Jha, who leads Microsoft's experiences and devices team, said in the memo, "Satya and I are grateful for Mikhail's contributions and leadership and want to thank him for all he has done to help Microsoft lead in the new AI wave."Nadella announced that Suleyman had joined the ranks in a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-mustafa-suleyman-microsoft-memo-2024-3">memo sent to employees</a> last week. The Google DeepMind cofounder will lead its consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, Bing, and Edge.Several Inflection AI team members, including cofounder Karén Simonyan, are also joining Microsoft. Simonyan will report to Suleyman as chief scientist, while he reports to Nadella.Microsoft has built AI into its Bing search engine and created other AI tools for Windows and Office under the Copilot brand over the last year.Nadella's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-microsoft-mustafa-suleyman-sam-altman-ai-2024-3">enlisting of Suleyman</a> demonstrated the Microsoft chief's uneasiness with the Windows and Web Experience team's progress, Bloomberg <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/microsoft-bing-chief-exiting-role-after-suleyman-named-ai-leader?sref=lAVQtUwz">reported</a>, citing two people with knowledge of his thoughts on the matter.Microsoft didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment, made outside of normal working hours.

Microsoft's reshuffle continues as Bing chief plans to exit the role. It comes days after Satya Nadella poached Mustafa Suleyman.

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">MicrosoftQi Lu</div></div></div>Qi Lu, the man in charge of Microsoft's Applications and Services Group, is leaving the company due to health reasons.His departure was first reported by <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/9/29/13103352/microsoft-qi-lu-to-exit">Re/Code's Kara Swisher and Ina Fried</a> and confirmed by Microsoft to Business Insider. Lu was apparently in an awful bike accident a few months ago and is leaving to focus his energy on recovering.It was not immediately clear whether Lu's departure is temporary, while he recovers, or a complete exit from the company.This is a big loss for Microsoft. Lu, who joined Microsoft from Yahoo in 2008, was considered by many inside the company as the quiet, thoughtful counterbalance to Microsoft's outspoken head of Windows, Terry Myerson, sources told us. Myerson has been at Microsoft since 1997.As we previously reported, early in Nadella's reign, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/source-battle-brewing-at-microsoft-2014-11">there was a power struggle of sorts</a> going on between Lu and Myerson over who would control Bing and MSN. Lu is known as a diplomatic guy to work for - a peacemaker. Myerson is known as brash and forceful. Myerson won the battle.Lu's responsibilities included the research and development teams across Microsoft Office, Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer, Lync, Skype, Bing, Bing Apps, MSN and the Advertising platforms and business group.Some of those groups, like MSN, advertising and Yammer, were on the decline and some of them, like Microsoft Office 365 and Skype were on the rise within the company. Lu was also expected to be involved in efforts to integrate LinkedIn's data to various Microsoft apps after that deal closes.Rajesh Jha, the corporate VP heading up Microsoft's Outlook and Office 365, has been promoted to replace Lu. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-explain-harvest-moon-2016-9">The last harvest moon eclipse of the decade has come and gone - here's what a harvest moon actually is</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="R5azR4NTE672sougZCqjax_ft6MHxrHf" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Walt Disney Pictures / YouTube</div></div></div>Microsoft <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/08/22/microsoft-acquisition-of-genee-to-accelerate-intelligent-experiences-in-office-365/#sm.0016nzrpl8hwfl211bu1ymi9dn7vq" target="_blank">announced on Monday</a> that it has acquired an AI startup called Genee for an undisclosed sum.The startup, founded in 2014, has built a platform that aims to help people manage their busy lives by acting as their virtual assistant and helping them to schedule meetings.It aims to remove the pain of emailing back and forth to find a time and a place that works for everyone. It is particularly well suited to organising large groups, Microsoft claims.Founded by Ben Cheung and Charles Lee, (who will now join Microsoft), Genee uses natural language processing and optimised decision-making algorithms to make the virtual assistant as similar to a human assistant as possible.It looks as though Microsoft plans to use the startup's technology to improve Microsoft Office 365. Rajesh Jha, corporate VP for Outlook and Office 365, wrote in a <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/08/22/microsoft-acquisition-of-genee-to-accelerate-intelligent-experiences-in-office-365/#sm.0016nzrpl8hwfl211bu1ymi9dn7vq" target="_blank">blog post announcing the news</a> that he's "confident the Genee team will help us [Microsoft] further our ambition to bring intelligence into every digital experience."He gave the following example of how Genee will work:It's possible that Genee's technology will be integrated into Cortana, which is Microsoft's AI-powered personal assistant.US tech giants including Apple and Amazon are also looking to develop their own personal assistants with Siri and Alexa able to complete an increasing number of tasks for people. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/prisma-photo-app-paintings-art-2016-8">Millions of people are obsessed with this app that turns you into a work of art</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="F1azhkNTE6sTqOLyWSQzVgmYyMKsKPwH" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Microsoft acquired Genee, an AI startup that can help manage your life

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former Bing chief Mikhail Parakhin appeared to subtly criticize Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.</li><li>Parakhin wrote it's "hard to disagree" when an X user said "we need you."</li></ul>Microsoft's former Bing chief appears to have thrown shade at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inflection-ai-mustafa-suleyman-tells-openai-staff-come-run-us-2023-11">Mustafa Suleyman</a>.Mikhail Parakhin, who stepped down from his role just days after Suleyman became CEO of Microsoft AI, commented under an X post about the DeepMind cofounder.An X user wrote "We need you ngl" (short for "not gonna lie") under a post summarizing Suleyman's TED Talk last week, which some critics have been ripping into.Parakhin responded in a <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/MParakhin/status/1782255776104685981">comment</a> that looked like a low-key dig at Suleyman: "Hard to disagree :-)."Some venture capitalists have been taking aim on X at Suleyman's AI remarks in his TED Talk.Martin Casado, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz's firm a16z, <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1782216647820099969">said</a>: "Good god. Make it stop. Total fucking nonsense."John Chu, a VC firm Khosla Ventures partner, <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/heyjchu/status/1782224263032033779">wrote</a>: "This is what happens when you hire the business cofounder who doesn't really understand the tech."Pedro Domingos, a computer science professor at the University of Washington also <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/pmddomingos/status/1782238245864231334?s=46&amp;t=1yjpGXMHUjqcuPJ7NA-DCQ">chimed</a> in: "When you give a midwit a platform."Microsoft executive vice-president Rajesh Jha<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-mikhail-parakhin-microsoft-bing-chief-exits-2024-3"> announced in an internal memo</a> last month <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111931/microsoft-windows-surface-pavan-davuluri">obtained</a> by The Verge that Parakhin had "decided to explore new roles."Parakhin would have reported to Suleyman after <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-mustafa-suleyman-microsoft-memo-2024-3">Satya Nadella's reshuffle</a> in which he was tapped to lead its consumer AI products and research including Copilot, Bing, and Edge.Parakhin, who led the company's Bing search engine and advertising businesses, will now report to Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott instead.Suleyman's first big move at Microsoft was <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-london-hub-2024-4">announcing an AI hub</a> in London. He cofounded Inflection AI firm in 2022 alongside Karén Simonyan and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/paypal-mafia-members-elon-musk-peter-thiel-reid-hoffman-companies">"Paypal mafia"</a> member Reid Hoffman. Before that he cofounded DeepMind in 2010, which was acquired by Google in 2014.Microsoft didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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Times are changing. There was a time when job seekers used to think twice before joining a new venture and run from pillar to post to get a job in a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=branded+companies">well-established brand</a>. 
 
But now, the mindset is changing slowly. Even the headhunters, the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=HR">HR</a>, are giving up positions at companies like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=pepsi">PepsiCo</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=reliance+industries">Reliance Industries</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=philips">Philips</a>, Cipla, Dell, Accenture, Adobe, Vodafone and Vedanta Group to join the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/5Points-To-Remember-When-Starting-Your-Own-Business/articleshow/26156210.cms">new-age ones</a>. 
 
One of the reasons that the HR heads are shifting loyalties can be that they want more recognition and motivation at work. 
 
According to industry experts, HR heads are looking for more challenging roles or bigger brands. While for others, it was their inability to adapt to the organisational culture. 
 
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 But, as per an <keyword id="6392746" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="HR-Head">HR head</keyword>, who recently quit a prominent business group, revealed companies need the best HR leaders to help them navigate through today's complex <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=talent">talent</a> scenario but they aren't always receptive to changes. 
 
"While their sales pitch is great, companies are unwilling to really go along with professional advice. Or old coteries make professional HR a strain. Worst, HR heads get blamed as an easy scapegoat. With more opportunities, they cut their losses rather than waste their time," the HR head added. 
 
A recent article published in the Harvard Business Review had Ram Charan, Dominic Barton and Dennis Carey explaining the demand in quality HR talent - those moving out and companies eager to get them onboard. 
 In the last few months alone, there have been exits galore - many of them high-profile. In July, Prabir Jha, CHRO of <keyword id="6355199" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Reliance-Industries">Reliance Industries</keyword> quit – it was recently reported that he is set to join Cipla soon - while earlier this month, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=vedanta+group">Vedanta Group</a> HR head Rajesh Padmanabhan put in his papers. 
 
Another headhunter said that the next stage would be a generational shift. “After all these senior seasoned HR leaders, there is a generational shift that is bound to happen," the head added. 
 
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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Microsoft notified employees on Wednesday of a big reorganization affecting its Windows and devices businesses, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-just-reorganized-and-the-teams-boss-is-leaving-2020-2">according to a memo obtained by Business Insider.</a></li><li>The shake-up, effective February 25, includes combining the Windows team and Microsoft's hardware groups - including the Surface line of computers - into one organization.</li><li>Microsoft Teams chat app head Brian MacDonald will also retire and hand the organization off to Jeff Teper, the head of collaboration tools SharePoint and OneDrive.</li><li>Analysts who spoke to Business Insider is the reorganization will streamline the development of software for Windows devices and help Teams grow.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prime">Click to read more BI Prime stories.</a></li></ul>Microsoft on Wednesday notified employees about plans to merge the company's Windows experience team and the devices organization into a unified team, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-just-reorganized-and-the-teams-boss-is-leaving-2020-2">according to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider</a>.The shake-up, effective February 25, includes the formation of the new team - led by Microsoft Chief Product Officer and Surface boss Panos Panay - and will also mark the retirement of Microsoft Teams chat app head Brian MacDonald. The consensus among analysts who spoke to Business Insider is that the reorganization will streamline the relationship between the Windows team and the Surface hardware business, while also helping the company grow its Teams app to compete with rival Slack."Panos Panay is a guy that gets things done. Surface, under his leadership, has seen a lot of growth, and I'm interested to see what he can do with Windows," Moor Insights &amp; Strategy President Patrick Moorhead said.<h2>The change for Windows</h2>Panay, generally considered the driving force behind Microsoft's line of Surface products, will run the newly-formed Windows + Devices team, as well as lead Microsoft's overall Windows leadership team, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-just-reorganized-and-the-teams-boss-is-leaving-2020-2">according to an email Rajesh Jha, Microsoft's executive vice president of experiences and devices, sent to employees on Wednesday.</a>"The Windows + Devices Team will drive end-to-end people centered innovation including the entire Windows ecosystem," Jha wrote. "The joining of these teams will streamline the decision-making process to help us deliver the best device experience from silicon through the [operating system] for our customers on [original equipment manufacturers] and Surface Devices.The news comes after Microsoft reported a solid quarter for its Surface hardware business: In the last three months of 2019, Surface generated $1.9 billion in revenue, the company says, on the back of new products like the Surface Laptop 3, Surface Headphones, and Surface Pro 7 tablet. This year, Microsoft plans to launch the Surface Neo, a dual-screen Windows laptop, as well as the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-duo-phone-android-smartphone-release-date-2019-10">Surface Duo, an Android-powered dual-screen phone</a>. Bringing together Windows and Devices will "drive a more cohesive and optimized user experience," Futurum Research Principal Analyst Daniel Newman said. "As Microsoft Devices, mostly powered by Windows (<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-duo-phone-android-smartphone-release-date-2019-10">barring the new Android device</a>), continue to grow, there is great continuity in the software and hardware that more shared resources, strategy and innovation could benefit from being delivered in lock step."That's a view echoed by Nucleus Research analyst Daniel Elman, who said that the reorg will pay dividends for Microsoft: As new Surface devices adopt cutting-edge technologies, it'll put the Windows team in a better place to add robust support for them into the operating system, and vice versa. "Microsoft is going all-in on Windows and putting greater investment in the area to help drive next-gen technologies, particularly 5G and the next iteration of WiFi," said. "It'll help Microsoft create more seamless experiences for device users by integrating these capabilities more tightly with the Windows operating system."<h2>What it means for Teams</h2>Microsoft Teams chat app boss Brian MacDonald is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-just-reorganized-and-the-teams-boss-is-leaving-2020-2">retiring amid the reorganization</a>. Jeff Teper, the head of mainstay Microsoft collaboration apps SharePoint and OneDrive, will take over the organization.Teams <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-teams-20-million-daily-active-users-slack-2019-11">has more than 20 million daily active users</a>, according to Microsoft - more than the 12 million most recently reported by its rival Slack, though Slack has taken issue with Microsoft's accounting because Teams comes bundled with some versions of the Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite."This is all part of an aggressive growth strategy with Redmond taking Teams into its fifth gear of growth," Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said. "As the cloud shift with Azure and Office 365 have inflected so has Teams demand and the reorg better aligns with this strategy and vision."MacDonald was an asset to Microsoft, Newman - the Futurum Research analyst - said, but the transition is unlikely to disrupt Teams growth."The company's cohesive strategy seems to enable these types of transitions without massive effect to the market," Newman said.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/bi-intelligence-daily?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=ctgr_bii&amp;itm_term=ctgr_subscription&amp;itm_content=microsoft&amp;itm_campaign=bi-intelligence-daily"></a>

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