The people who make Microsoft, Microsoft.

Since 2014 he has reoriented Microsoft around a growth mindset, open source, and the cloud, turning Azure and AI into a platform millions of developers build on.

He guides Microsoft's technical vision and its AI platform work, and writes and podcasts thoughtfully about making AI serve everyone, not just the privileged few.

He leads Microsoft AI and its push toward in-house frontier models, bringing decades of AI product experience to the Copilot consumer experience.

As Vice Chair and President he represents Microsoft on the hardest questions where technology meets society, from cybersecurity and privacy to AI governance and human rights.

As CFO since 2013 she has steered the finance organization through the cloud era and landmark deals including LinkedIn, GitHub, and Activision Blizzard.

He leads the commercial business that brings Microsoft's cloud and AI to customers across more than 120 markets, focused relentlessly on real customer outcomes.

He built and led Microsoft Security and launched the Secure Future Initiative, one of the largest cybersecurity engineering efforts ever, to make the whole ecosystem safer.

He leads CoreAI, uniting Microsoft's developer division and AI platform teams to build the end-to-end AI stack that developers and businesses use to create AI apps.

He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with a vision of a computer on every desk, building the company and industry that so much modern software still stands on.

He leads Microsoft Research and champions AI for the physical, biological, and medical sciences, thoughtfully exploring what AI means for medicine and discovery.

As Chief Scientific Officer he works at the intersection of science, technology, and society, and founded Microsoft's Aether committee on AI ethics and the Stanford One Hundred Year Study on AI.

His teams pioneered Project Catapult and Brainwave, so that today every server in Microsoft's cloud carries a hardware platform his group designed for AI and networking at scale.

He created the beloved Sysinternals tools that generations of Windows engineers rely on, and as Azure CTO he shapes the reliability and security of Microsoft's cloud.

He led the creation of Windows NT, the foundation under every major version of Windows since 1993, and kept building, from the Azure host OS to the Xbox One hypervisor.

He designed C# and leads TypeScript, giving millions of developers languages and tools that make everyday programming safer and more joyful.

He prototyped ASP.NET over a Christmas break and now leads the teams behind Azure, .NET, Visual Studio, VS Code, and GitHub, always in his signature red shirt.

He has taught and welcomed developers for decades through his blog and podcasts, and helped lead the charge to open-source .NET into a truly community-driven platform.

He co-created NuGet, SignalR, and ASP.NET Core and works in the open every day, generously helping developers build faster, real-time, cloud-native apps.

He runs the C# language design process fully in the open on GitHub, patiently shepherding community ideas all the way into a language millions depend on.

He designed and built F# and co-created .NET generics and language-integrated async, ideas that rippled out into C#, Python, TypeScript, and beyond.

A Gang of Four Design Patterns author and JUnit co-creator, he leads the Zurich lab that gave the world Visual Studio Code, built in the open and loved by developers everywhere.

For over thirty years he has kept Windows compatible and, through The Old New Thing, generously explained its history and quirks with rare insight and humor.

The creator of Python brought his craft to Microsoft to help make CPython dramatically faster, a gift to the entire Python community.

Over 34 years she rose from developer to lead the Developer Division behind Visual Studio, VS Code, and .NET, tools that shape how the world writes software.

She has helped steer Microsoft's embrace of open source across TypeScript, VS Code, and GitHub, and guided the Copilot developer experience from completions to coding agents.

He has led the TypeScript team since before its first release, engaging tirelessly with the community on GitHub to make typed JavaScript a joy to use at scale.

A 23-year Microsoft veteran, he leads Windows and Surface and their future at the intersection of AI, cloud, and silicon that people use every day.

He shepherds TypeScript releases and represents its community at TC39, and helped drive the native port that makes the compiler dramatically faster for everyone.

His Mono and Xamarin work, brought into Microsoft in 2016, became the foundation for running .NET everywhere, from mobile to WebAssembly.

He spent 38 years at Microsoft and gave Xbox a player-first heart, championing game preservation, accessibility, and backward compatibility.

She rose from corporate VP to become the first Black woman president of Xbox, focused on developers and the players who love their games.

He built Microsoft Research from nothing in 1991 into a global lab of hundreds of scientists, and his Mach kernel still lives at the core of systems people use every day.

He brought clear, provable order to the chaos of distributed systems, and gave engineers TLA+ and scientists LaTeX as gifts they still rely on daily.

A PARC pioneer of the Alto and the modern GUI, he has spent decades at Microsoft quietly shaping how secure, networked personal computers actually work.

His textbooks taught a generation of machine-learning practitioners, and he now leads a team using AI to accelerate real discovery in physics, chemistry, and biology.

She turned Minecraft into an open platform for teaching AI to collaborate with people, and shares it so any researcher can build on her work.

He coined contextual bandits and built the open-source Vowpal Wabbit, fast, terascale learning that anyone can pick up and use.

She leads frontier work on foundation models and AI agents with a steady focus on systems that are reliable, trustworthy, and genuinely helpful to people.

After three decades shaping Azure, he now shepherds Microsoft's hardest bets in space, quantum, and telecom into real cloud capabilities.

Known as the father of SharePoint, he has spent over three decades building the collaboration tools that more than a billion people work in every day.

Across a 35-year career on Windows, Bing, and Xbox, he became the human face who explains Microsoft's consumer AI to everyday people in plain language.

She helped build Microsoft's security business into a unified practice and is a genuine advocate for women and newcomers finding their place in technology.

Her work at the seam of search and human-computer interaction quietly made the everyday act of finding information feel natural and human.

His 1991 memo to Bill Gates launched Microsoft Research at a time when other giants were closing their labs, a bet on curiosity that paid off for decades.

He carried WYSIWYG editing out of the research lab and built Word and Excel, the productivity tools billions of people still open every morning.

He gave system administrators PowerShell, an object-based shell that turned tedious manual work into clean, repeatable automation for millions of engineers.

She co-founded fairness and ethics research inside Microsoft and, through Atlas of AI, helps the world see the real human and planetary costs behind AI systems.