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Windows leader Panos Panay is leaving Microsoft
- whatever1 3y agoThanks for the Surface, the best 2-in-1 for engineers ever conceived! It's sad that Intel and Qualcomm never delivered a good enough chip for this device.
- Lord-Jobo 3y agoGod help us, a marketing lead of the Windows division. As if the user experience wasn't bad enough.
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- paxys 3y agoBeing replaced by a marketing person...doesn't give me high hopes for the Windows and Surface division going forward.
- strkamela 3y agohopefully a temporary transition until Windows transitions into a more modern business area like AI
- gigel82 3y agoThey're not even pretending any more. Large swaths moving under the literal ad business, with a marketing guy in charge. Disgusting and disappointing...
- throwaway-blaze 3y agoWindows (on the consumer side) is a loss-leader for sales of Office.
- dbbk 3y agoWhat on earth is a "corporate vice president of modern life"
- throwaway-blaze 3y agoWelcome to Microsoft.
- 3seashells 3y ago[flagged]
- dancemethis 3y agoThat's some comic book villain.
- solardev 3y agoIs this the guy who took the awesomeness of Windows 7 then added a bunch of ads and redundant, slow UIs and released 10 and 11?
- tempaway72641 3y agoReminder: Panos Panay masterminded the Surface line from the start and its grown into a $5 billion per year business. Here's the clip of him deliberately dropping the Surface Pro 3 live on stage in 2014 https://youtu.be/4ElGi6dclJM?si=0LpRJSse-6H0Scv_&t=1694 https://youtu.be/4ElGi6dclJM?si=0LpRJSse-6H0Scv_&t=1694
- moritzwarhier 3y agoWhen I recommended my father a Surface Pro 3 back 10 years ago or so, it was also the last time when I was excited by Windows. He loved it until buying a new laptop about a year ago.
- tiahura 3y agoTell your dad to get a surface laptop 15”. His eyes will appreciate the big 3x2 display.
- moritzwarhier 3y agoI'm sure he would, but when he bought his last laptop, I was only involved in setting up his software, periphery, backups etc It's still a Windows but he said he decided against another Surface because of pricing.
- strkamela 3y agoPanos has also wasted years with bad decisions slowing down Windows innovation, good riddance
- paulpan 3y agoApparently he's going to join Amazon to lead their Echo and Alexa hardware division: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/18/23879036/microsoft-panos-panay-amazon-hire-former-surface-windows-chief https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/18/23879036/microsoft-panos-... Makes sense since Microsoft seems to be increasingly weaning off hardware, aside from Xbox. Their hardware refreshes for the Surface lineup have been very slow and counterintuitive (e.g. what happened to the AMD-powered lineup). Uncertain how much influence Panay had but as the hardware chief for Surface, I expected more.
- intended 3y agoThat sounds terrible. Surface completely altered the windows hardware landscape, and its was a joy to use. This is a remarkably poor outcome.
- pjmlp 3y agoJust like most of the WinUI faces that used to show up on community calls since the Project Reunion started are now at Google, Amazon, or if still at Microsoft, Azure, XBox and whatever AI is doing this week. The desktop division is currently a mess.
- runjake 3y agoHe is apparently headed to Amazon to run their Alexa division. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/chief-product-officer-panos-panay-is-out-at-microsoft/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/chief-product-officer-pano...
- Aleklart 3y agoHe is a next Stephen Elop on a mission to destroy Amazon. “following Burning East-1, a brutally honest memo, AWS switching to Azure “
- solarkraft 3y ago> Moving forward, we will double down on our strategy. These changes will be effective immediately with Panos’ help in the transition.
- intended 3y agoHow strange, I was just thinking that it feels like Panos would leave, but I can’t recall what suggested that.