In this episode, we sit down with Pavan Davuluri, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Windows + Devices business, to explore how Windows is evolving into an AI-native platform. Pavan leads the team responsible for strategy, design, and delivery of Windows products across the full stack - from silicon and devices to platform, OS, apps, experiences, security, and cloud. With 23 years at Microsoft, he's driven the creation of the Surface line and now oversees how hardware and software fuse together with AI at the center. We explore how Copilot is being deeply integrated into Windows, the engineering shifts required to make Windows a more proactive and intelligent platform, and how Microsoft balances powerful automation with user control. From Surface design standards influencing the broader ecosystem to supporting OEM partners in the AI PC era, Pavan reveals the principles guiding Windows' transformation and what the computing experience will look like in the next five years.Subscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.aiMicrosoft Surface: https://www.microsoft.com/surfaceWindows AI features: https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ai-features
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Hey, what's up, everybody? We are at Microsoft Ignite 2025, and today I am joined by Pavan Davalori, who heads up the Windows and Devices team at Microsoft. Thank you for having me.
It's great to be here today.
Welcome to the show. I want to start by asking you specifically, so under your leadership, Microsoft has continued to redefine what the Windows ecosystem means in an AI-driven world. Sure. How has your vision changed as AI has become basically a huge part of that?
It's a great question. I personally think of this as an amazing learning journey in itself for us, both as a team and organization in terms of how we build our product, but also how we serve the breadth of Windows customers and users, both in commercial environments, certainly in consumer, gaming, and education, and many, many other places.
For us, I feel like this is a journey that started a couple of years ago, in a way. In fact, May of 2024, we started with this idea of Copilot Plus devices about the time we were also building the Copilot.
And really in that window of time, one of the fundamental things that we had to think about was what was the role of Windows in this environment and how do we build Windows in a way that can contribute in this space, but was also sort of modernized to be able to be effective in the world of AI.
And so we spent a couple of years thinking about what does that mean from a system stack from the silicon platform, you know, that Windows devices are run on. What does it mean for the operating system itself in terms of being aware of AI workloads? We had to think about what the developer platform needed to be over time.
And certainly we spent a good amount of time on what experiences do we want to bring to life on Windows. both as a Windows team, second from a Microsoft perspective, certainly with the co-pilot work that's happening across the company, but really for us, the magic is Windows being a platform to have others build on top of Windows, both in the consumer and commercial space.
So it has been kind of a multi-step journey for us to think about the layers of how to bring value to customers at the end of the day.
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