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is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad<\/i><\/a>, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Microsoft is losing another veteran executive. Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft\u2019s developer division (DevDiv), is resigning from the software giant after 34 years. Liuson spent the past 12 years leading Microsoft\u2019s developer business, during a period Microsoft focused more on open-source projects and acquired GitHub<\/a> for $7.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Liuson will continue as head of DevDiv until the end of June, and then move to an \u201cadvisory role\u201d reporting to Microsoft CoreAI chief Jay Parikh, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge<\/em>. It\u2019s not immediately clear who will replace Liuson, or whether the DevDiv team will simply report up to Parikh in the coming months instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about this for a while, and in January I shared with Satya [Nadella] and Jay [Parikh] that the timing feels right for me to take this step,\u201d says Liuson in her memo. \u201cI am proud of how DevDiv is recognized as one of the most customer-obsessed teams, and we are known for delivering product truth where customers choose to use our product.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liuson\u2019s departure comes less than a year after the resignation of former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke<\/a>. Microsoft never replaced Dohmke\u2019s CEO position, and the rest of GitHub\u2019s leadership team now reports directly to Microsoft\u2019s CoreAI team. Liuson was responsible for overseeing GitHub revenue, engineering, and support after Dohmke\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

Liuson is the latest in a line of executive departures at Microsoft in recent months. Former Xbox chief Phil Spencer also announced his retirement<\/a> from Microsoft in February, along with former Xbox president Sarah Bond resigning from the company. Microsoft\u2019s head of experiences and devices, Rajesh Jha, then announced his own retirement<\/a> from Microsoft last month, after more than 35 years at the company.<\/p>\n

Jha\u2019s departure triggered a flattening of Microsoft\u2019s upper management of products like Windows and Office, allowing the leaders of these divisions to report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft also appointed a new Copilot boss last month<\/a>, with changes that saw Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman focus on the company\u2019s own AI Models instead of working directly on the assistant-like features of Copilot for consumers.<\/p>\n

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