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%.