Microsoft is announcing another big reorganization today, pushing the core of the company’s Windows operating system in a new direction. Windows chief Terry Myerson, a 21-year Microsoft veteran, is departing the company as Microsoft seeks to unify its artificial intelligence and core Windows OS components into a single team. Microsoft is slicing Windows into two teams. The core of what’s called the Windows platform team will be headed by Scott Guthrie, who’s currently in charge of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Microsoft’s AI platform work will also move into this single team. Harry Shum will continue to lead an engineering team, AI + Research, which focuses on tech advances that can be used in future Microsoft products.

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