{"id":189685,"date":"2026-02-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/microsoft-names-ai-executive-sharma-to-lead-xbox\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:00:13","slug":"microsoft-names-ai-executive-sharma-to-lead-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/microsoft-names-ai-executive-sharma-to-lead-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft names AI executive Sharma to lead Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/23\/2003852710\">Microsoft names AI executive Sharma to lead Xbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/23\/2003852710\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/23\/2003852710<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-22 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.taipeitimes.com\">www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft appoints Asha Sharma to lead Xbox and gaming, replacing Phil Spencer.<\/li>\n<li>Spencer, who ran Xbox since 2014 and headed gaming since 2022, is retiring.<\/li>\n<li>The company aims to recommit to console gamers after years of focusing on mobile and PC.<\/li>\n<li>Xbox president Sarah Bond and Xbox Games Studios head Matt Booty will leave their respective positions.<\/li>\n<li>Sharma, previously at Instacart and Meta, was selected for her consumer expertise.<\/li>\n<li>The shift comes after Microsoft alienated some Xbox fans with moves towards mobile and PC gaming.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft has laid off over 2,500 gaming employees and closed several studios in recent years.<\/li>\n<li>Sharma emphasizes a renewed commitment to core Xbox fans and console gaming going forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft names AI executive Sharma to lead Xbox https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/23\/2003852710 Publish Date: 2026-02-22 11:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2026\/02\/23\/p09-260223-321.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189687,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189685\/revisions\/189687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}