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Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, the same year as CEO Satya Nadella
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A longtime Microsoft executive leading the software company's development tools group, Julia Liuson, told employees that she will retire in June and become an advisor.
Key facts
- In August, Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018 for $7.5 billion, announced plans to leave
- Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, the same year as CEO Satya Nadella
- Cursor's annualized revenue exceeded $2 billion in February, Bloomberg reported — She has reported to Jay Parikh, a former Meta executive who came to Microsoft in 2024
Summary
Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, the same year as CEO Satya Nadella. "We will continue building on the progress already underway to flatten teams, operate AI-first and reduce toil," she wrote in a memo. Her departure comes as Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, faces mounting competition from startups such as Cursor with products that rely on generative artificial intelligence models to help developers write code. Building on relationships with AI model builders Anthropic and OpenAI, while also striving to formulate models in house, Microsoft is working to make AI a key part of its toolchain that third-party developers can use to create applications and websites.