Microsoft Cortana chief to leave after less than a year in charge

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Cortana head Javier Soltero is leaving Microsoft, apparently by the end of the year.


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Cortana’s business vice president, Javier Soltero, is leaving Microsoft after 4 years with the business, he tweeted on Tuesday.

“I’ve made the decision to leave Microsoft,” Soltero composed. “The past 4 years have been an incredible experience. I’m humbled to have been a part of building something that 100M+ users depend on every day and grateful to have worked with some amazing people.”

Soltero will leave the business by the end of the year, according to ZDNet, and go back to entrepreneurial work. He signed up with Microsoft in 2014 when the business purchased e-mail start-up Acompli, which he co-founded. Soltero led Outlook and Outlook Mobile, and was later head of technique forOffice He started running Cortana inMarch

Microsoft has actually been working to move Cortana from a standalone assistant into an “assistance aide” in the age of Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant and Apple’sSiri In August, Microsoft and Amazon released a long-awaited cooperation in between Cortana and Alexa

Microsoft didn’t instantly react to an ask for remark.