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News Microsoft's newly-unified Windows and Surface Team gets a new head — restructuring and AI in Redmond

Wait, the Windows team is now (some portion of) a merged team, and that is not reported on as a status downgrade for the OS? This article reads to me like it's just a press release, puff-piece coverage on Microsoft's behalf. Team merge will be good because Microsoft says it will be good? Ok!

Windows used to be --THE-- driving force at Microsoft. Now, it's "just a part of Surface".

Wow.

EDIT: Apparently some other news articles elsewhere conflict, so I don't know which to believe. Apparently Windows/Surface have been merged already, or merged before split and now this is a new merger? I'm sure someone is more knowledgeable about the correct timeline, which is less of an issue. Being combined is a downgrade, whether this week or two years ago. This isn't the first time Windows was downgraded as a driver either, having taken back seat to Azure - so much so that it was Azure's team lead who eventually became CEO. (Nadella)
 
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And yet the "new" Surface Pro 10 and Laptop 6 for business have just Intel's (relatively) anemic graphics and DUAL (performance) CORE PROCESSORS in 2024 for a base price of $1200, with the Ultra 7 165U falling behind the 3 year old Ryzen 7 5800H in performance due to those "little" e cores.

Honestly the SP10 and L6 essentially look like AI Chromebooks with all AI processing to take place on Microsoft servers using the $30 a month Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription.