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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees in a Tuesday memo that she’s appointing new leaders, as the software company looks to return its video game unit to growth.

Sharma moved to Xbox in February as gaming chief Phil Spencer announced his retirement. She came to Microsoft in 2024 after executive stints at Meta

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, becoming president of product in the CoreAI engineering group that works on GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code and other developer tools.