Organizational Changes in Sales, Windows

A shift in the sales organization will place a single leader in charge of all sales and operations outside North America. In addition, the head of Windows client core development has been replaced, and a vice president in charge of “natural” computing interfaces (such as speech recognition) has left the company for Google.

This article summarizes organizational changes at the vice presidential level and higher since May 2005. For a more comprehensive view of the Microsoft organization, see the Directions on Microsoft OrgChart.

Courtois Promoted and Other Sales News

Jean-Philippe Courtois, formerly the senior vice president in charge of sales for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region and nominal CEO of that region, was promoted to president of international operations in June. In his new role, he will oversee all sales and operations outside North America, including the public sector vertical sales organization, which is responsible for selling Microsoft products to governments worldwide.