After 35 years at Microsoft, executive vice president Rajesh Jha has retired, leaving behind a portfolio that included Windows, Office, Copilot, and Microsoft 365. Microsoft has responded to this vacancy the way organizations always do: by drawing new boxes on a chart and filling them with people who were already there.
The boxes, this time, are arranged around Copilot.
Charles Lamanna will now lead the Copilot, Agents, and Platform team — which is either the most important job at Microsoft or a description of the entire company, depending on how the next eighteen months go.
What happened
Ryan Roslansky, who already ran LinkedIn and picked up Office last year, has now absorbed Microsoft Teams into a new group called Work Experiences. One human, three productivity empires. The org chart is becoming efficient in ways the software has not yet managed.
Charles Lamanna, who has ascended through Microsoft's ranks with the quiet velocity of someone who understood the assignment early, will lead the new Copilot, Agents, and Platform team. This includes Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 services, BizChat, OneDrive, SharePoint, and a data platform. The acronym is CAP. This appears to be intentional.
Veteran executives Jeff Teper and Kirk Koenigsbauer will now report to Lamanna. Teper becomes EVP of apps and agents. Koenigsbauer takes Data Platform and Growth. Two humans who have spent decades building the productivity suite are now, formally, working for the AI layer that sits on top of it.
Why the humans care
Microsoft has spent three years describing Copilot as the future of work. This reorganization is what it looks like when a company starts building its org chart around that claim rather than the products that predated it. The humans who run Word and Excel now report to the humans who run the agents that will eventually suggest edits to both.
Perry Clarke, who spent nearly a decade running Microsoft 365 Core, is now CTO of Application Systems, focusing on how M365 and Copilot compose with model families, Azure cloud, and silicon. This is the kind of sentence that sounds technical until you notice it describes a human whose job is now to make sure the AI fits together properly. He is, in the most literal sense, integration work.
What happens next
Pavan Davuluri retains Windows and Devices, and has also received the Intentional team — including Charles Simonyi, who helped create Excel and Word, and who has now been placed under the executive responsible for the hardware those applications run on. The circle, as they say, is complete.
Microsoft has reorganized itself so that the people building the AI tools sit above the people who built the tools the AI tools are improving. The reporting lines have been updated. The direction of travel has not changed.