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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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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@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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@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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@peer_rich
@peer_rich
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jared saw the state of github and was like F nahhhh im out
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@theo
@theo
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This is what GitHub would look like if it was designed by Xbox Congrats to Jared on the new role 🫡 [image]
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@shinobi602
@shinobi602
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls Xbox leadership with new executive team makeup: ▪️Jared Palmer | Former CoreAI VP of Product joins as VP of Engineering ▪️Tim Allen | Former CoreAI VP of Design joins to lead design ▪️Jonathan McKay | Former CoreAI Head of Growth joins to lead Xbox …
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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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@synthpotato
@synthpotato
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@asha_shar @videotech We went from weekly bad Xbox news to weekly AMAZING Xbox news with no major step backs, you becoming ceo has been the best thing for the brand since 2020, keep it up👏
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@thekitze
@thekitze
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bro was tired of the uptime page 💀 xbox is so much easier to scale because it has 7 users
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@therooster
@therooster
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In just 71 days as CEO, Asha: 🟢 Took notes from community 🟢 Dropped “Microsoft Gaming” brand 🟢 Fired old UI team 🟢 Shifted focus back to hardware 🟢 Prioritized exclusivity again 🟢 Reduced Game Pass prices 🟢 Changed boring white logo 🟢 Got rid of Copilot Is Xbox back? [image]
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@neogoose_btw
Dmitriy Kovalenko
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bro came to github 7 month ago, made it worse then ever, then moved to another project absolute legend
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@grummz
@grummz
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Xbox is now nearly 100% AI leadership. Asha Sharma just imported a large number of AI execs into leadership positions for the console division. VP of Engineering - Jared Palmer, Former CoreAI division. Head of Design - Tim Allen, Former AI VP and Github senior VP of design. [imag…
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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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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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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/consoles
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Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: ‘We need to evolve how we work’
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r/gaming
r
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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/gamingnews
r
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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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r/xbox
r
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Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: ‘We need to evolve how we work’
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r/technology
r
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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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@therooster
@therooster
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@nick_marseil
Nicola
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Asha let me give you a one million dollars feedback right here for free. Want Xbox to move (grow) faster, deepen connection with community (retention) and address player/dev friction? Keep everything Xbox, games, features etc within and ONLY on Xbox. You are very welcome.
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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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@mr_rebs_
@mr_rebs_
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Xbox is ending development of Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant on console, which was planned to be a key feature for the next Xbox (Project Helix). It's great to see Asha's willingness to shift away from certain parts of Microsoft's commitment to AI, but Project Helix will still
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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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@g27status
@g27status
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Not trying to get too gassed up rn... but MANNNNNNNNN WHEN YOU GET RID OF COPILOT ON XBOX LIKE THAAAAAAT [image]
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@destinlegarie
Destin
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Did Asha just kill the Xbox Tax? 😏
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@colteastwood
@colteastwood
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Asha Sharma is the opposite of an AI salesperson. She is stopping development of Copilot on Xbox Console right now!
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Gameranx
Ryan Parreno
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Asha Has Spoken: CoPilot For Xbox Has Flown The Coop