Microsoft has merged its Windows and Surface departments into a single team, which will be overseen by Pavan Davuluri — a 23-year veteran inside the Redmond company who was a driving force behind the recent custom-designed Surface processors developed in collaboration with Qualcomm. According to an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Microsoft says merging the two teams will “enable us to take a holistic approach to building silicon, systems, experiences, and devices that span Windows client and cloud for this AI era.” This isn’t the first time that Surface hardware and Windows software devel…
