Overview
- Phil Spencer will step down as Microsoft Gaming CEO with a handoff starting February 23 and will advise through the summer.
- Asha Sharma, formerly president of Microsoft’s CoreAI and an executive at Instacart and Meta, is appointed Executive Vice President and CEO, Microsoft Gaming.
- Xbox president Sarah Bond is leaving Microsoft, ending speculation that she would succeed Spencer.
- Matt Booty is promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer and will report to Sharma.
- In her first message, Sharma outlined three commitments—great games, a renewed “return of Xbox” beginning with console, and the future of play—while rejecting any move to flood the ecosystem with low‑quality generative AI.