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Microsoft is undergoing a regime change that could have a direct impact on its core business.

Rajesh Jha, EVP for experiences and devices, which covers Microsoft 365 and Windows, has announced his retirement, and a succession plan.

Jha will “transition out” on July 1 but remain in an advisory capacity. Interestingly, the company is appointing four EVPs to take over his duties: Longtime Microsoft alums Perry Clarke, Charles Lamanna, and Pavan Davuluri, and LinkedIn head Ryan Roslansky. They will all report directly to CEO Satya Nadella.

The move comes as Redmond has been actively repositioning itself as AI-first, and pushing hard into AI assistants, notably Microsoft Copilot. Recognizing the fervor around Claude Cowork, which stoked fears of a ‘SaaSpocalypse’ after it was rolled out in January, Microsoft recently intorduced an optional Copilot Cowork AI, based on Anthropic’s wildly-popular AI agent.

Coalescing around AI

“Rajesh Jha retiring gives Microsoft the chance to reshape and refocus its leadership over internal products while fulfilling an established roadmap,” said Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group.

Jha has been a mainstay at the company for more than 35 years, during which time it has rolled out Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Copilot, all of which are now cornerstones of the tech giant’s portfolio.

In a blog post about his retirement, Jha emphasized Microsoft’s “great momentum,” and said that over the next few months, his team will work together to “finalize the full cascade of details” required with this kind of transition. “This includes aligning operating rhythms, decision ownership, and details on the future org structure, all so we’ll be fully aligned and ready to run at the start of FY27,” he said.

The new guard

Jha’s four replacements have significant experience within Microsoft, and with its expanding suite of AI-powered products. Here’s a quick breakdown.

Pavan Davuluri

Davuluri has been with Microsoft for 25 years, working across PC hardware, Surface, Windows, and silicon. Most recently, he served as president of Windows + Devices, where he led teams responsible for the strategy, design, and delivery of Windows commercial and consumer products, including cloud, platform, OS, apps, silicon, devices, and security. The division also oversees the supply chain and manufacturing of Microsoft hardware.

On his LinkedIn profile, Davuluri outlines some takeaways from his decades as a “product maker,” notably the value of end-to-end thinking and product differentiation.

“Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere,” he wrote in a recent X post. He later responded to subsequent criticism from developers on the company’s “weird direction” and their calls for reliability, performance, and ease of use.

“We care deeply about developers,” he insisted, adding that his team takes in “a ton of feedback.” However, he acknowledged, “we know we have work to do on the experience, both on the everyday usability, from inconsistent dialogs to power user experiences.”

Charles Lamanna

Lamanna has spent 13 years at Microsoft, joining when the tech giant acquired his cloud monitoring startup, MetricsHub, in 2013. Prior to being promoted to EVP, he served as president of the business and industry Copilot division.

Lamanna has been behind Microsoft’s agentic AI push from the beginning, helping evolve Microsoft Copilot and development tool Copilot Studio, with which users can create custom AI agents. He has overseen the design, development, and engineering of AI-powered apps, autonomous agents, and low-code platforms, including Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.

According to Microsoft, under Lamanna’s leadership, Power Apps has become a “market leader” used by 25 million monthly users. Dynamics 365 is also “one of the largest public cloud-hosted SaaS solutions globally,” used by more than 400,000 organizations worldwide.

He also helped develop Microsoft Azure.

Ryan Roslansky

Roslansky has been with LinkedIn for nearly 17 years, roughly six of those as CEO. In June 2025, he was tapped by Microsoft for a dual role leading Microsoft Office and M365 Copilot. He also still serves as head of LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought for $27 billion in 2016.

Roslansky has been reporting to Jha and Nadella, and is responsible for Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and M365 Copilot apps. Under his leadership at LinkedIn, he more than doubled the company’s annual revenue and its membership (which is now around 1.2 billion). Under his leadership, M365 Copilot continues to “scale rapidly,” now with more than 100 million active monthly users, according to Microsoft.

“Roslansky‘s success in building LinkedIn as a platform demonstrates the potential to have similar success with M365,” Hyuon Park, CEO and chief analyst at Amalgam Insights, commented when his Microsoft appointment was announced last year.

Perry Clarke

Clarke has spent more than two decades at Microsoft, according to his LinkedIn profile, most recently serving as president of M365 Core. He has worked on M365 for nearly 10 years, and previously helped run Exchange Mailbox Server.

Unlike his colleagues, Clarke doesn’t have much of an online or social presence.

Four heads to replace one?

It’s unclear what responsibilities will be doled out to each of Jha’s four successors. Having so many cooks in the proverbial tech kitchen could cause some directional confusion, but some industry watchers say it may be a necessary move.

The ecosystem surrounding Copilot, Windows, Office, and Microsoft 365 has expanded so much in terms of size and complexity that it’s “debatable” whether one person can run all of them successfully, noted Info-Tech’s Bickley. “Distributing leadership among multiple experienced leaders should help Microsoft move faster to execute and keep focus on those primary platforms,” he said.

And for enterprise IT buyers, the change will probably be seen more as a change in internal operational leadership rather than an “overall change in Microsoft’s product strategy,” Bickley noted.

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The retirement of old server equipment from data center facilities could become an opportunity for enterprises to generate revenue, instead of being an often costly recycling expense.

Last year Western Digital announced it was experimenting with new ways to extract valuable rare earth elements and metals from obsolete servers from Microsoft’s US data centers, as part of a collaboration with Critical Materials Recycling and PedalPoint Recycling.

And on Thursday, Reuters reported that Korea Zinc, which it described as one of the world’s largest smelters, is in “talks with major US technology firms to recycle data center waste and extract rare earth.”

The move comes almost one year to the day after China announced immediate export controls on seven more rare earth elements critical to enterprise IT hardware manufacturing. The new controls issued by China’s State Council required export licenses for samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium, along with their alloys, oxides, and compounds. All those materials are deemed essential components in data center storage systems, networking equipment and semiconductors.

According to Reuters, the Korea Zinc initiative will give the US another rare earth source beyond its main supplier, China, which produces about 90% of the world’s rare earths, and the single US-based mine run by MP Materials,

Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research, said that the Korea Zinc initiative reflects a structural shift that is beginning to take shape inside the global technology infrastructure economy.

For decades, he said, “the retirement of data center equipment was treated almost entirely as a compliance and disposal issue. Enterprises focused on secure decommissioning, certified recycling, and documented destruction of sensitive hardware. Once equipment left production environments, its economic life was assumed to be largely finished.”

That assumption, he pointed out, “is beginning to change, because the hardware inside modern data centres contains a wide range of strategically important materials. Servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and power components contain copper, aluminum, silver, gold, and increasingly small but significant quantities of rare earth elements and other critical minerals.”

These materials play a vital role in the manufacturing of semiconductors, energy systems, defense electronics, and advanced computing infrastructure, he explained, noting, “as global demand for digital infrastructure continues to expand, the volume of retired hardware entering disposal channels is rising quickly.”

Electronic waste has already become one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. “Global volumes now exceed 60 million tonnes annually and are projected to move toward eighty million tonnes by the end of the decade if current trends continue,” he said. “Data center infrastructure represents only a portion of that total, but it is a particularly important portion because it is concentrated, professionally managed, and replaced in structured cycles.”

For a metals producer, he said, data center infrastructure represents a highly attractive feedstock, because unlike consumer electronics, enterprise hardware is replaced in large batches and flows through professional asset management channels.

That predictability, said Gogia, “allows recyclers to design specialized processes that target specific components and materials. Over time, this creates the foundation for an industrial scale circular supply chain in which retired electronics feed back into the production of new materials.”

For enterprises themselves, he added, “the implications are primarily economic and operational rather than geopolitical. The ability to capture value from retired hardware depends heavily on how organizations manage the end of life phase of their infrastructure lifecycle. Many companies still treat hardware retirement as a simple disposal exercise. Mixed equipment is often shipped to recyclers with little separation between different component types. In those scenarios most of the recoverable value disappears.”

Organizations that approach decommissioning more strategically can improve outcomes significantly, said Gogia, pointing out that separating storage devices, circuit boards, and power components allows recyclers to process materials more efficiently, and maintaining detailed chain of custody records ensures that the hardware is tracked securely, which is often a compliance requirement, while still enabling recovery of valuable materials.

Data centers have traditionally been viewed as energy intensive facilities that consume enormous resources, but, he said, “what is becoming visible now is that they also generate a growing stream of recoverable materials when equipment reaches the end of its operational life. As computing infrastructure continues to expand globally, those retirement streams will begin to resemble industrial resource flows rather than simple waste.”

This article originally appeared on NetworkWorld.

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So soon after Apple’s big product launches last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared a letter to mark the upcoming 50th anniversary since the founding of Apple on April 1, 1976.  

It is strange to see Apple grapple with the concept of an anniversary. It isn’t usually a company that does this, as it tends to focus on what it is building rather than the history its work leaves behind. “We’re not a culture that looks back,” Cook said. “So, the group of people working on this have had to kind of build a different muscle for this, as our muscle is always about what’s next. We’ve really had to work hard on this to get in a reflective state, but when you really stop and pause and think about the last 50 years, it makes your heart sing. It really does.

“I promise some celebration.”

A party of one, but still a big celebration

Cook took a look at the past in a conversation with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue, who has written a book about Apple’s first 50 years during which he observed the need for the company to have the right people and the right organizational culture. “I think Apple is such a unique place, it’s not possible to replicate it,” he said. “I know a lot of different companies, and I think Apple is just in a party of one.”

There seems to be a real focus on “the crazy ones” in Apple’s approach to the date. “Progress comes from those who challenge convention and imagine what could be,” the company said.

Cook’s anniversary letter references the cultural challenge Apple has with anniversaries, and also suggests that it will be Apple’s customers, teams, and former employees who will get headline billing in how the company celebrates in the coming weeks. 

“We couldn’t let this milestone pass without thanking the millions of people who make Apple what it is today — our incredible teams around the world, our developer community, and every customer who has joined us on this journey. Your ideas inspire our work. Your trust drives us to do better. Your stories remind us of all we can accomplish when we think different.”

How will Apple celebrate?

This begs the question of how Apple will celebrate the date. Speaking during a recent all-hands meeting at Apple, Cook dropped some hints of what the company’s 50-year anniversary might involve.

“We’ve been going back through old archives, old photographs. We’ve been going back through the products, the services, the people, and I am struck by how much Apple has changed things, how much Apple has changed the world, how much Apple has given to the world.”

In the coming weeks, “Apple and its global community will celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary, recognizing the creativity, innovation, and impact that people around the world have made possible with Apple technology.”

That suggests the company will be focused on sharing some of the stories of what its customers have achieved during its existence. It also seems likely to embrace social media, given the company today introduced a new @helloapple handle on Instagram. (Famously, the word “Hello” appeared on the screen during the launch of the original Apple Macintosh.)

Beyond cultural reflections, some might wonder whether the anniversary will include new hardware. 

Given the very impressive recent launches – MacBooks Neo, Air, and Pro, new displays and a budget-price iPhone, that feels unlikely, but not impossible. It isn’t inconceivable the company might choose to link its fiftieth anniversary with the first glance at some of the new AI features in Siri, though doing so runs risks if that launch fails to impress.

People, not product? 

At the same time, perhaps it’s right that in its 50th year it makes sense for the company to take stock of its achievements, which fundamentally is not the tools it has created but what its audience of creative humans has achieved with them.

“Thinking different has always been at the heart of Apple,” wrote Cook. “It’s what has driven us to create products that empower people to express themselves, to connect, and to create something wonderful.” 

Ultimately, Apple’s anniversary is about the impact its technology has enabled over five decades. The comparison with the upcoming 20‑year iPhone anniversary next January will be equally revealing.

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