A ‘final season’ at Microsoft for Yusuf Mehdi: Longtime exec plans to leave after one last year

Yusuf Mehdi speaks at Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC event in May 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Yusuf Mehdi , one of Microsoft’s best-known and longest-serving business leaders, whose tenure has spanned 35 years from Windows 3.1 to Microsoft Copilot, plans to leave the company after one more year — his “final season” at the company, as he called it in an interview. Mehdi, 59, is Microsoft’s EVP and consumer chief marketing officer, overseeing product marketing for Windows, Surface, Copilot, Micr