{"id":1009850,"date":"2026-05-25T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009850"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:23:46","slug":"microsofts-top-executive-yusuf-mehdi-is-leaving-after-35-years-says-in-memo-i-have-decided-the-time-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/microsofts-top-executive-yusuf-mehdi-is-leaving-after-35-years-says-in-memo-i-have-decided-the-time-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s top executive Yusuf Mehdi is leaving after 35 years; says in memo: I have decided the time is\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft&#8217;s consumer chief marketing officer and one of its longest-serving executives, is leaving the company after 35 years. He announced the decision in an internal memo to staff on Thursday, first reported by Business Insider. Mehdi isn&#8217;t walking out the door immediately. He plans to work through the next fiscal year\u2014which at Microsoft ends in June 2027\u2014before stepping away. Until then, his brief is clear: reimagining Windows for what Microsoft is calling the &#8220;agentic era,&#8221; growing Microsoft 365 services, and pushing forward the company&#8217;s One Copilot vision. In other words, this is a long, structured handover rather than a quick exit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 35 extraordinary years at Microsoft\u2014years filled with adventure, challenge, reinvention, and innovation\u2014I&#8217;ve decided the time is right to begin planning for my next adventure,&#8221; Mehdi wrote in the memo obtained by Business Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft&#8217;s consumer chief marketing officer and one of its longest-serving executives, is leaving the company after 35 years. He announced the decision in an internal memo to staff on Thursday, first reported by Business Insider. Mehdi isn&#8217;t walking out the door immediately. He plans to work through the next fiscal year\u2014which at Microsoft ends in June 2027\u2014before stepping away. Until then, his brief is clear: reimagining Windows for what Microsoft is calling the &#8220;agentic era,&#8221; growing Microsoft 365 services, and pushing forward the company&#8217;s One Copilot vision. In other words, this is a long, structured handover rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009851,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009850\/revisions\/1009851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}