Microsoft Corp’s head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, got a promotion and a spot
on chief executive officer Satya Nadella’s senior leadership team in a nod to
the renewed importance of gaming at the software giant.
Spencer, now an executive vice president, previously reported to
Windows division head Terry Myerson, who has a seat on Nadella’s council of
chiefs. The group meets weekly and is comprised of the tier of executives
directly below the CEO.
It’s a change in focus from earlier in Nadella’s tenure. In 2014, in
his first big companywide strategy memo, Nadella defined gaming as outside
Microsoft’s core businesses, but still a very important “other business in
which we can have fundamental impact.”
At the time, the business had just gone through a lacklustre release of
the overpriced Xbox One and some investors were calling for Nadella to get out
of gaming entirely.
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