Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before
Microsoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees in a Tuesday memo that she's appointing new leaders, as the software company looks to return its video game unit to growth.
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Discussion
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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big changes at Xbox today. Asha Sharma is bringing in more technical expertise and shaking up the Xbox platform teams, after the departure of Sarah Bond. Full details here 👇 https://www.theverge.com/...
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r/xbox
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Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: ‘We need to evolve how we work’
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r/Games
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Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: ‘We need to evolve how we work’
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Pure Xbox
Fraser Gilbert
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‘We Need To Evolve How We Work’ - Xbox CEO Announces She's Bringing In New Leaders
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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Microsoft's Xbox chief says today's Xbox platform changes are all about “promoting leaders who built Xbox and bringing in new leaders with consumer and technical expertise we do not yet have.” https://www.theverge.com/...
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
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Several GitHub / CoreAI execs move to Xbox What is going on at Microsoft This is very odd to see, you'd expect the other way round given that AI growth *should* be several times that of gaming growth (in the optimistic playbooks for these teams) [image]
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@jaredpalmer
Jared Palmer
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Excited to share that I'm joining @Xbox as VP, Engineering & Technical Advisor to CEO @asha_shar I'll be focused on building world-class tools, services, and experiences for developers and players across the Xbox ecosystem. Grateful for the opportunity and excited to get to [imag…
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r/gaming
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New xbox CEO overhauls leadership by bringing executives from CoreAI and Instacart over amid sinking sales
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r/technology
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Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: ‘We need to evolve how we work’
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Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: ‘We need to evolve how we work’
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Matt Barney
Matt Barney
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OMG, I can't... I just can't... Microsoft, what in the world are you continuing to do to Xbox?!?! I put up a poll last week about what it'd …
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Richard King
Richard King
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No surprise here...leaning into AI. I predict layoffs soon... https://lnkd.in/... - Microsoft's new Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma …
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@knoebel
@knoebel
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls rhe leadership team. She brings in four people from CoreAl engineering group where she worked before, along with a director at her previous company, Instacart. — [1/2] — www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/m... [image]
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r/gamingnews
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is bringing over executives from the CoreAI engineering group, along with a director at her previous company Instacart: ‘We need to evolve how we work’
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Pure Xbox
Fraser Gilbert
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Xbox To Retire Features That Don't Align With Future Plans, Starting With Copilot AI
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@asha_shar
Asha
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Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers. Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business
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@tomwarren.co.uk
Tom Warren
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wow. Microsoft is scrapping Copilot on Xbox, just hours after a big Xbox platform reorg. Xbox Copilot on mobile is being killed off and development of Copilot on Xbox consoles is over www.theverge.com/games/924551...
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Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI / New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma continues to make her mark
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@jacobandreou
Jacob Andreou
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It's critical that we remove Copilot from places where it doesn't live up to its promise. Thank you for the partnership on this @asha_shar!!
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@bdsams
Brad Sams
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Copilot brand has been diluted so much that Microsoft is pulling back. Removing it from Xbox Renaming it inside of some Windows apps
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@paultassi
Paul Tassi
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“Stop development of copilot on console” we're winning at last
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Chris Melissinos
Chris Melissinos
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Overhauling the entire division with new leadership that, overwhelmingly, has absolutely no experience in game development, content creation, or creative development apart from the new head of design? …
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@vicious696
Parris
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Xbox removing Co-Pilot along with other recent changes and commitments says to me the new leadership is serious about rebuilding trust in the brand and taking care of their core audience Still a lot of work to do but things are headed in the right direction
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
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Copilot is a case study of how to wreck a brand with AI slop GitHub Copilot was a good product and remained one Every other Copilot was rushed, poor quality, and turned the Copilot brand into something most people hate, and associate with “AI done badly”
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@theprimeagen
@theprimeagen
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Wait, wtf... She is... Doing good things???