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Tom Warren is a Senior Editor and author of Notepad. Tom previously founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge. Tom also used to work as an enterprise project manager in a variety of investment banks, and has a background in IT and Windows engineering. Tom has appeared on CNN, CNN International, BBC News, Channel 4, MSNBC, TWiT, and many others over the years.
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Microsoft has hired former GE executive Carolina Dybeck Happe as its new chief operations officer. It’s a newly created role that fills the lack of a chief operating officer since Kevin Turner departed in 2016. The role will see Happe join Microsoft’s senior leadership team and report directly to CEO Satya Nadella. Happe will help “accelerate our company-wide AI transformation,” according to Nadella. The hiring comes on the same day Microsoft laid off 650 Xbox employees.
[The Official Microsoft Blog]
Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil isn’t slowing down
Another round of painful layoffs affect 650 Microsoft Gaming employees.