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How a Windows shake-up could position Microsoft to capitalize on AI PCs

An insider look at Microsoft’s latest leadership changes.

One employee, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells me that the web experiences team that Parakhin led had a different culture from the rest of Microsoft that often resulted in micromanaging and “insane deadlines” for projects. Microsoft appears to have much more confidence in Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon Elite X processors, because I understand it’s about to only offer these chips to consumers on an OLED version of the Surface Pro 10. If the performance of the Snapdragon X Elite is greatly improved and Microsoft’s app emulation efforts are solid, we could be about to witness an Arm transition for Windows laptops that has been years in the making.

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