Ryan Roslansky Is Leaving After Nearly 18 Years At LinkedIn and Microsoft (theverge.com)
(Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:00PM (BeauHD)
from the long-tenures dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/10/01/1832232/ryan-roslansky-is-leaving-after-nearly-18-years-at-linkedin-and-microsoft
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/1003515/microsoft-ryan-roslansky-office-teams-linkedin-leaving
Ryan Roslansky is [1]leaving Microsoft and LinkedIn after nearly 18 years , triggering [2]another leadership shuffle across Office and Teams. "Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was [3]promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this year," notes The Verge. From the report:
> "Ryan leaves the organization in a strong position," says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an [4]internal memo . "Over the past year, Ryan's team has done critical work bringing together the product, engineering, and design foundations that have made this next phase possible."
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> Roslansky is leaving a week after Microsoft announced its new Copilot, which the company is positioning as "the OS for work." He's also leaving around a month after calling fully AI-generated documents "a doom loop" for workers. "If we're not careful, we'll end up with a very expensive way to avoid writing and reading in an ocean of sameness, genericness," said Roslansky in [5]his LinkedIn post .
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> Microsoft is now moving the teams behind Office and Microsoft Teams over to Charles Lamanna, as part of the Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) organization. [...] Microsoft's chief design officer, Jon Friedman, is also moving to report to Copilot chief Jacob Andreou. Microsoft appointed Dan Shapero as its LinkedIn CEO earlier this year, and he will continue in this role and report directly to Nadella.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/1003515/microsoft-ryan-roslansky-office-teams-linkedin-leaving
[2] https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/24/1652239/microsoft-outlook-is-getting-an-ai-overhaul-under-new-leaders
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/04/2124235/microsofts-linkedin-chief-is-now-running-office
[4] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/01/microsoft-365-and-linkedin-leadership-update/
[5] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryanroslansky_ai-slop-isnt-happening-just-on-social-networks-share-7496622258124152832-VBXc/
> "Ryan leaves the organization in a strong position," says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an [4]internal memo . "Over the past year, Ryan's team has done critical work bringing together the product, engineering, and design foundations that have made this next phase possible."
>
> Roslansky is leaving a week after Microsoft announced its new Copilot, which the company is positioning as "the OS for work." He's also leaving around a month after calling fully AI-generated documents "a doom loop" for workers. "If we're not careful, we'll end up with a very expensive way to avoid writing and reading in an ocean of sameness, genericness," said Roslansky in [5]his LinkedIn post .
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> Microsoft is now moving the teams behind Office and Microsoft Teams over to Charles Lamanna, as part of the Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) organization. [...] Microsoft's chief design officer, Jon Friedman, is also moving to report to Copilot chief Jacob Andreou. Microsoft appointed Dan Shapero as its LinkedIn CEO earlier this year, and he will continue in this role and report directly to Nadella.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/1003515/microsoft-ryan-roslansky-office-teams-linkedin-leaving
[2] https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/24/1652239/microsoft-outlook-is-getting-an-ai-overhaul-under-new-leaders
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/04/2124235/microsofts-linkedin-chief-is-now-running-office
[4] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/01/microsoft-365-and-linkedin-leadership-update/
[5] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryanroslansky_ai-slop-isnt-happening-just-on-social-networks-share-7496622258124152832-VBXc/
Not drinking the koolaid (Score:2)
by GeekWithAKnife ( 2717871 )
Dude is saying things that are not positive about AI. Had to go.
Look here at my pretty chat that goes up and to the right. That is AI enablement. It'll 10x your productivity.
Morale at MS is bad (Score:2)
by Locke2005 ( 849178 )
Microsoft still owns billions of dollars worth of prime Redmond real estate. I suspect in a few years they will go the Tektronix route, and only manage to post a profit every year by selling off and/or leasing out that real estate. I was just working for XBox, it's full of old-timers eyeing the exit. I'd cash out the stock options while they can still get good money for them if I were them.
Speaking of AI, "And here's the part that..." (Score:2)
by slipped_bit ( 2842229 )
And here's the part that most people don't {$VERB}.
Surely other people have noticed this, too, yes?
in other words he failed (Score:1)
The dude is 48 years old - if he had succeeded at his task then MSFT would have kept him around. And at that level of MSFT people make god-tier money. People who are ambitious enough to get to that level don't suddenly think, whelp I've got enough, time to start spending time with the dogs and building chairs in my woodshop.
So the reason he's out is, he couldn't hack it at his new job. Or Satya set unrealistic goals. Either way, sayonara.
Re:in other words he failed (Score:5, Insightful)
Uh no. He dared criticize AI, so he's out.
Re: in other words he failed (Score:2)
Yeah, and he was right, which they also can't tolerate apparently.