Mikhail Parakhin, the head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising, is stepping down from that role as Parakhin “decided to explore new roles.” We’ve quoted Mikhail Parakhin here countless times over the past couple of years, to hear that he is leaving the role makes me super sad. His transparency and willingness to listen to the community was amazing.

Bloomberg reported:

The Verge has the staff email which reads:

Last September Microsoft announced that Microsoft’s chief product officer Panos Panay is leaving the company and with that there were some internal leadership changes. Including Yusuf Mehdi and Mikhail Parakhin who are both super involved with Bing have newish roles.

Mikhail who is super active on X @MParakhin has been very quiet over the past 4-5 days.

Makes you wonder how Copilot was performing and why Microsoft made these executive changes…

I hope he is well and that he sticks with Bing, in an influential role.

Forum discussion at X.