Panos Panay, Microsoft’s chief product officer and the particular person liable for improvement of the Floor and Home windows 11, has left the corporate after 19 years.
Microsoft introduced Panay’s departure on Monday by way of electronic mail. Beforehand, he was the top of the corporate’s Home windows and Units workforce.
“Thanks, Panos, in your influence on our merchandise, tradition, firm, and business over the previous 20 years. I am grateful in your management, help, and all you have finished for Microsoft and our prospects and companions,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated in an emailed assertion.
Panay tweeted Monday about his determination to depart the corporate.
“After 19 unbelievable years at Microsoft, I’ve determined to show the web page and write the following chapter,” he stated. “I am ceaselessly grateful for my time at Microsoft and the wonderful individuals I had the glory to make merchandise with.”
After 19 unbelievable years at Microsoft, I’ve determined to show the web page and write the following chapter. I’m ceaselessly grateful for my time at Microsoft and the wonderful individuals I had the glory to make merchandise with.
— Panos Panay (@panos_panay) September 18, 2023
Though Panay has but to point the place he might be working subsequent, Bloomberg reported Monday that the previous Microsoft govt will head to Amazon to run the division engaged on Alexa and Echo merchandise.
Amazon did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
Panay started work on the Floor in 2008. The concept on the time was for Microsoft to have its personal touch-based {hardware} to coincide with the discharge of Home windows 8, which made use of touch-based controls. Since its preliminary launch in 2012, Panay has been the face of the Floor, recurrently presenting the latest iterations at Microsoft occasions.
Taking on Panay’s duties on the Home windows workforce is Yusuf Medhi, company vice chairman and client chief advertising and marketing officer.
Panay’s departure comes days earlier than Microsoft’s Sept. 21 occasion, the place the corporate will showcase new merchandise and its newest improvements in synthetic intelligence.