在重新回到微软一年后，微软设备和服务业务负责人、前诺基亚CEO Stephen Elop选择正式离开微软。
作为诺基亚设备与服务业务，同微软交易案中的一部分，Stephen Elop去年在交易完成之后正式加入微软，并且负责微软设备与服务业务。同时在微软去年CEO的遴选中，Stephen Elop同样也是十分有利的竞争者之一。
Stephen Elop现在却选择毫无征兆的离开。微软CEO Satya Nadella在一份给所有微软员工的通告中解释道：
对他个人而言，在恰当的时间选择从微软离开。他的离开对于领导层来说仍是一种损失，我对此表示遗憾，但我也非常期待他未来新的目标。
在Stephen Elop正式公布离开之后，微软也已经做出相应的调整，微软操作系统部门负责人Terry Myerson，将执掌一个全新的团队：Windows和设备部门。
Windows 和设备部门是由过去的Windows团队和设备团队（Surface、Xbox和其他微软硬件）合并而成。这也意味着Terry Myerson在微软将担任更加重要的角色。
埃洛普“过渡期之后”的离开也将作为微软本次重组的一部分。与此同时，微软首席战略官Mark Penn也将在九月离开微软，他曾领导团队发起了著名的Scroogled宣传项目，用以讽刺谷歌的产品和服务。除此之外，微软高管Kirill Tatarinov与Eric Rudder 也将在微软过渡期之后离开。
为此，微软CEO Satya Nadella向微软全员发了一封公开信。
这封公开信的核心要点是，Nadella希望微软能够继续延续在过去一年“予力众生”的使命，继续为用户提供更为强大的生产力，让用户能够实现更多、得到更多，同时在“移动为先、云为先”的框架下，进一步深化战略目标。
为此，Nadella也进行了他上台之后的第二次组织结构调整，并且在新财年（2015年7月开始）以这样全新的组织结构实现战略目标。
其中将有三个最关键的部门：
一、Terry Myerson将领导一个全新的Windows和硬件团队（WDG），帮助实现更多个人计算力的目标。微软将现有的OSG（操作系统部门）与MDG（硬件设备部门）合二为一。
这个全新的部门将负责所有的Windows和微软硬件设备工作，其中包括：Windows、Lumia、Surface Hub、Microsoft Band和Xbox。让Windows能够更加广泛的覆盖不同应用场景下的设备，满足用户需求。
二、Scott Guthrie将继续领导云计算和企业部门（C+E），专注于构建只能云计算平台，能够让所有设备体验到云计算的魅力。
同时C+E部门还将帮助企业用户打造具有核心竞争力的产品服务、流程。在ERP和CRM项目上，C+E将继续创新同时也将与ASG部门一起提高核心技术竞争力。
三、陆奇则是继续领导应用和服务部门（ASG），专注于重塑生产力体验，并且微软将教育类业务移动到ASG部门。
帮助微软技术跨越不同的平台，继续引领用户的工作和数字生活。ASG近些年已经取得重要的突破。
以下为微软CEO公开信全文：
Aligning Our Strategy & Structure
Team,
As we approach a new fiscal year, I’d like to share with you how we are aligning our structure to our strategy and the changes to our Senior Leadership Team.
Over the past year, I have said that Microsoft aspires to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. To do this, building the best-in-class productivity services and platforms for the mobile-first, cloud-first world is at the heart of our strategy, with three interconnected and bold ambitions:
Reinvent productivity and business processes
Build the intelligent cloud platform
Create more personal computing
To better align our capabilities and, ultimately, deliver better products and services our customers love at a more rapid pace, I have decided to organize our engineering effort into three groups that work together to deliver on our strategy and ambitions. The changes take effect today.
Terry Myerson will lead a new team, Windows and Devices Group (WDG), enabling our vision of a more personal computing experience powered by the Windows ecosystem. We will combine the engineering efforts of our current Operating Systems Group and Microsoft Devices Group (MDG) led by Stephen Elop. This new team brings together all the engineering capability required to drive breakthrough innovations that will propel the Windows ecosystem forward. WDG will drive Windows as a service across devices of all types and build all of our Microsoft devices including Surface, HoloLens, Lumia, Surface Hub, Band and Xbox. This enables us to create new categories while generating enthusiasm and demand for Windows broadly.
Scott Guthrie will continue to lead the Cloud and Enterprise (C+E) team focused on building the intelligent cloud platform that powers any application on any device. The C+E team will also focus on building high-value infrastructure and business services that are unique to enterprise customers, such as data and analytics products, security and management offerings, and business processes. Today, we are also moving the development teams who build ourDynamics products to C+E, which will enable us to accelerate our ERP and CRM work even further and mainstream them as part of our core engineering and innovation efforts. C+E will work closely with ASG to ensure the end-to-end experience is cohesive across communications, collaboration and business processes.
Qi Lu will continue to lead the Applications and Services Group (ASG) that is focused on reinventing productivity. This group is leading the charge in building productivity services for digital work that span all devices and appeal to the people who use technology at work and in their personal lives. ASG has already made advancements in these areas, and the only change as part of today’s announcement is that the engineering efforts to build solutions for Educationwill move to ASG.
Changes of this nature require us to look at our leadership structure overall, and as a result a few Senior Leadership Team members will leave Microsoft at the conclusion of a transition period.
When Stephen Elop returned to Microsoft, he oriented MDG to create the best Microsoft experience through its devices, inclusive of hardware, software and services. He has been a strong advocate of the need to drive focus and accountability around the delivery of these experiences and has helped drive tighter alignment toward the ambition of more personal computing. With the structural change described above, Stephen and I have agreed that now is the right time for him to retire from Microsoft. I regret the loss of leadership that this represents, and look forward to seeing where his next destination will be.
Kirill Tatarinov is going to explore what’s next for him. Under Kirill’s leadership, the Dynamics business has grown to a nearly $2 billion business with an ambitious wave of products on the horizon. Perhaps most important though, Kirill and team have shown us that participating in a meaningful way in the CRM and ERP market opens up new opportunities we can uniquely take advantage of by bringing Dynamics into Microsoft’s mainstream engineering, sales and marketing efforts. I am very thankful for Kirill’s unswerving leadership in bringing Dynamics to this point and building a strong leadership team to carry it forward.
After more than 25 years at Microsoft, Eric Rudder has decided to try something new. Eric has played a number of key roles at Microsoft including founding and growing the Server and Tools business in its early days, leading Microsoft Research, and most recently driving our advanced technology and education efforts. I will deeply miss Eric’s passion, technical and business acumen, and keen intellect, and I appreciate all he’s done for Microsoft.
Lastly, a number of months ago, Mark Penn shared with me that he is planning to leave Microsoft in September to form a private equity fund, among other things. Over the years, Mark has leveraged his talents and insights on Microsoft’s behalf. From helping craft a Super Bowl ad and helping design new business and marketing models to his work in data analytics, Mark has helped me set the company on a new course. I’m thankful for the wise strategic counsel Mark has provided, and I look forward to seeing what he does next.
I’ve worked closely with Stephen, Eric, Kirill and Mark and have incredible respect for each of them and wish them well.
I’m counting on our Senior Leadership Team to inspire innovative products and services and lead excellent execution. Our competition and our customers don’t care about our organization structure — they care about innovation. While we are distinctly aligning our engineering structure and core capabilities, our ambitions are interconnected. Success requires all of us — and particularly the Senior Leadership Team — to work across boundaries as one Microsoft and in harmony with our partners. Here’s the new team effective today:
Chris Capossela, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (will now also take on responsibility for Dynamics and Education marketing)
Kurt DelBene, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Planning
Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise
Amy Hood, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Kathleen Hogan, Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President, Business Development (will now lead our partnerships with mobile operators around the world)
Qi Lu, Executive Vice President, Applications and Services Group
Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President, Windows and Devices Group
Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research
Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Legal and Corporate Affairs
Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer (will also now take responsibility for the Dynamics sales and partner organization)
Jill Tracie, Chief of Staff
I'm certain that matching our structure to our strategy will best position us to build products and services our customers love and ultimately drive new growth. Please feel free to send any questions you have to one of the Senior Leadership Team members or me.
Looking forward to what we can do together.
Satya
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