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  • Microsoft Taps LinkedIn Chief Roslansky to Lead Office Division!

    According to media reports, Microsoft is assigning Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn, a more significant position that will involve managing Office productivity tools.

    As per reports, Roslansky, who took over LinkedIn five years ago, is going to be the executive vice president of Office. He will be answering to Rajesh Jha, the executive vice president for experiences and devices at Microsoft.

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella notified staff members of the move via email on 4 June. According to the source, Roslansky will still answer to Nadella in his capacity as CEO of LinkedIn.

    After bringing in over $17 billion in revenue in the previous year, LinkedIn, which Microsoft purchased for $27 billion in 2016, will continue to function as a subsidiary. Prior to joining LinkedIn in 2009, Roslansky was employed at Yahoo.

    Roslansky New Work Portfolio

    Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams are all part of Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity software suite, which was rebranded as Microsoft 365 in 2022.

    Apart from managing those items, Roslansky’s portfolio will also feature the M365 Copilot application, which enables users to modify documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In 2020, Jha’s team released the app.

    Office is one of the most recognisable product suites ever, according to Roslansky’s LinkedIn post. It has literally influenced the way the world functions. The office’s influence and reach are unparalleled. “I’m entering a brand-new, exciting period in this capacity.

    AI, connectivity, and productivity are all merging at a large scale. Professionals around the world use Office and LinkedIn on a daily basis, and I’m excited to redefine ourselves in this new environment,” he continued.

    Microsoft announced that Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president for business and industry Copilot products, and his staff will go to Jha’s division as part of the organisational shift.

    They were formerly a member of the cloud and AI team led by Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie. Lamanna oversees the Copilot Studio tool, which makes it simple to create artificial intelligence agents, and Dynamics 365 sales and customer support tools, which are competitors of Salesforce.

    Microsoft Focusing More on AI

    Nadella stated in December that AI bots may eventually replace humans as the primary means of interacting with software systems intended for usage within large corporations.

    “When was the last time any of us actually attended a business application?” he asked investors Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner during their podcast. “We hardly use them, and somebody in the organisation is sort of inputting data into it,” he said, referring to the numerous cloud software programs that the corporation pays for.

    According to Nadella, the intensity increases in the AI era, as handling all that data is now simple. Over the last ten years, the company’s Productivity and Business Processes division, which is supported by LinkedIn and Microsoft 365 subscriptions, has become more profitable.

    In the third quarter of the fiscal year, the unit’s operating margin surpassed 58%, up from 33% in the previous year. Compared to the previous year, revenue increased by 10%.

  • We Are Seeing Rapid Expansion in the Indian Market: Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI

    Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, said on his first visit to India that the business is proud that India is one of its fastest-growing markets and that it has one of its best teams globally, with offices in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

    Suleyman, who is well-known for having founded Inflection AI and DeepMind, two of the top artificial intelligence (AI) firms in the world, offered his thoughts on the direction of AI and how it may enhance human welfare.

    Suleyman stated during the Microsoft: Building AI Companions for India event in Bengaluru on November 6, 2024, that India has incredibly talented engineers and developers.

    Social scientists, psychologists, therapists, screenwriters, and comedians—those people who may often connect with the film or video game industries—are also becoming more and more involved with Microsoft. He noted that the company has the chance to synthesise more varied viewpoints and obtain a more comprehensive understanding of those engaged in the design and operating process.

    Microsoft 365 Copilot

    While citing Microsoft 365 Copilot as an example, Suleyman added that Microsoft 365 is a productivity tool driven by AI that enables users to do activities more effectively and efficiently. To offer real-time support, it interfaces with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Copilot offers skills and content that are pertinent to a user’s tasks by utilising Microsoft Graph data and massive language models.

     According to Suleyman, this innovative artificial intelligence application can look up and cite any query users ask by looking at their calendar or email, Excel sheets, papers, supply-chain data, or firm human resource records. This is contributing significantly to the workplace. Knowledge workers can now act on the beneficial knowledge they have access to. “I believe that many of our industries will experience significant economic benefits,” he stated.

    Speaking with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

    Suleyman spoke with S. Krishnan, the secretary of the Indian government’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Suleyman responded that the internet has already made information accessible to everyone when asked about the economic benefits and growth potential that artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to India, particularly in a setting with limited capital.

    According to Suleyman, AI will now make information accessible to anyone. This knowledge is synthesised, condensed, and customised to users’ preferred methods of information acquisition and utilisation. That holds true at work just as much as it does at home.

    India’s AI Mission

    Through the India AI mission, the country hopes to build a strong AI computing infrastructure. Suleyman responded that voice is the best approach to making the technologies widely available and accessible when questioned about Microsoft’s role in fostering diversity in India. According to him, the government ought to invest in fields like translation and languages. He also underlined how crucial it is for startups and companies to have access to sizable government datasets in order to train their models and promote innovation.

    The 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize was given to John Jumper and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind for creating the ground-breaking AI tool AlphaFold, which predicts protein structures, he said, highlighting the scientific advances made possible by AI.

    Suleyman emphasised the importance of proactive regulation in the field while talking about the risks posed by AI. According to him, it needs to be discussed openly rather than as a taboo subject. 

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