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Apparently 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-hi

Apparently 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 ago
That sounds terrible. Surface completely altered the windows hardware landscape, and its was a joy to use. This is a remarkably poor outcome.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Just 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.