Microsoft in March announced
major changes to its leadership group as a part of a
company-wide reorganization. As part of the reorganization,
the Redmond-based Microsoft is transitioning focus towards the
cloud and AI. Microsoft is now internally making new changes
after the reorganization.
A new report today claims that Microsoft is moving the
engineers working on stock apps to the Edge team. Microsoft
will stop developing the Windows 10 applications like Weather
as the engineers working on stock apps will be moved to the
Edge team. Microsoft has apparently started prioritizing
enterprise features over the consumer. It also seems that
Microsoft has cancelled some features that were supposed to
launchwith the Windows 10 Redstone 5 update.
It is not clear whether the Mail and Calendar, Microsoft Photos
and some other popular Windows 10 apps will be still developed
not.
Before the reorganization, Terry Myerson was one of the
highest-ranked executives after CEO Satya Nadella. His
departure from the company was very unlikely but after a
decision with the CEO, Myerson decided to leave the
company. Not so long ago, Terry Myerson was promoted as head of
the WDG team at a time when Microsoft was planning to transform
from a software firm to a mobile first, cloud first tech giant.
Terry Myerson last month announced that he would be leaving the
company after investing no less than 21 years to pursue his
next chapter outside the software giant. Needless to say,
Myerson’s departure is surprising and triggers a massive
reorganization within the company.
In the same goodbye letter, Microsoft’s Terry Myerson said that
the company innovated a new Windows on phone user experience
and there were also several ideas that never came to be,
including the innovative plans for the business model. “We
innovated in phone user experience. We had innovative plans for
the business model that never came to light. We worked hard.
Really hard. But the industry moved forward faster than we
could catch up,” he said.
Microsoft is hoping that the Progressive Web Apps could fix the
app gap problem and with the engineers joining the Edge team,
we can expect that the browser will be finally improved to
match the quality of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
