Microsoft is losing another veteran executive. Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft’s developer division (DevDiv), is resigning from the software giant after 34 years. Liuson spent the past 12 years leading Microsoft’s developer business, during a period Microsoft focused more on open source projects and acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion.
Liuson will continue as head of DevDiv until the end of June, and then move to an “advisory role” reporting to Microsoft CoreAI chief Jay Parikh, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge. It’s not immediately clear who will replace Liuson, or whether the DevDiv team will simply report up to Parikh in the …
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