The head of Microsoft at Cortana would leave the company by the end of the year

Javier Soltero, vice president of Cortana at Microsoft, will leave by the end of the year, according to a report by ZDNet. Soltero joined Microsoft for the first time when he recovered his Acomplished mail application at the end of 2014.

Soltero and the Acompli team helped Microsoft dramatically improve its Outlook iOS application. He then became the general manager of Outlook before taking over the lead role of Cortana in March this year, as part of the massive reorganization of the company, which brought a renewed interest in artificial intelligence. and the cloud, as well as the departure of Windows chief Terry Myerson.

ZDNet Last month, Microsoft announced that Cortana would be leaving its Artificial Intelligence research division to join its Experiences and Peripherals team, underscoring its interest in developing Cortana as a viable productivity assistant for existing Microsoft software and less as an experimental research project. Soltero would be back in the entrepreneurial space, but his concrete projects are unclear once he leaves Microsoft.