内容来源：https://www.geekwire.com/2026/a-final-season-at-microsoft-for-yusuf-mehdi-longtime-exec-plans-to-leave-after-one-last-year/

内容总结：

微软资深高管尤瑟夫·梅迪宣布明年离职，结束35年职业生涯

微软最资深、任职时间最长的商业领袖之一尤瑟夫·梅迪（Yusuf Mehdi）计划在一年后离开公司，他将这最后一年称为自己的“最终赛季”。现年59岁的梅迪目前担任微软执行副总裁兼消费者首席营销官，负责Windows、Surface、Copilot、Microsoft 365消费者业务、Edge浏览器及必应搜索引擎的产品营销工作。

梅迪本周四宣布了这一计划，并表示将在下一个财年全力以赴，确保完成接班人交接，随后离开这家被他称为“我毕生工作的画布”的公司。他将此比作确定产品的发货日期——定下日程，然后朝着目标推进。他在周四下午发给团队的内部邮件中写道：“以后有的是时间反思和庆祝，但现在，我们要全速推进我们的使命。”

谈及离开后的打算，梅迪表示自己并不认为这是退休，他仍感到年轻且充满活力，虽有一些想法，但尚未制定任何具体计划。

过去一年，梅迪一直与微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）及首席营销官武藤健（Takeshi Numoto）密切合作，推进过渡方案。微软目前尚未宣布继任者，他表示现在确定离职后的领导架构还为时过早。未来一年的工作重点包括：为智能体时代定位Windows、统一微软Copilot使其成为无缝衔接工作与生活的体验，以及推动Microsoft 365消费者业务突破1亿订阅大关。

梅迪的职业生涯几乎触及微软推出的每一款主要消费产品。1991年，20多岁的他作为实习生加入微软，此前曾在路透社工作两年，负责外汇交易业务的电脑产品。1992年，他在获得华盛顿大学MBA学位后正式加入微软。从早期的Windows 3.1和Windows 95发布，到浏览器大战期间推广Internet Explorer，再到带领必应搜索团队并与雅虎达成搜索广告合作，他一路晋升。2011年，他转战Xbox部门，助力推出Xbox One并促成与NFL的合作，使Surface平板电脑出现在赛场边线。2023年帕诺斯·帕奈（Panos Panay）离职后，他接管了Windows和Surface业务。同年，他晋升至当前高级领导职位，成为微软在消费者人工智能领域的代言人，负责从AI驱动的必应搜索到Copilot的市场推广。

梅迪计划工作至微软下一个财年结束，即2027年6月30日。

中文翻译：

微软最具知名度且任职时间最长的业务领导者之一优素福·梅赫迪，其职业生涯横跨35年，从Windows 3.1到Copilot，计划再过一年后离开公司——他在一次采访中称之为他的“最后一个赛季”。现年59岁的梅赫迪担任微软执行副总裁兼消费者首席营销官，负责Windows、Surface、Copilot、Microsoft 365消费者版、Edge及必应搜索引擎的产品营销。他于周四宣布了这一计划，并表示将在下一个财年全力以赴，确保继任方案落实到位，随后离开这家被他称为“我毕生事业画布”的公司。他将此比作确定产品的发货日期——这是他在公司期间积累丰富经验的一件事：把日期记在日历上，然后朝着目标努力。“之后会有时间反思和庆祝，但现在，我们要全速推进我们的使命，”梅赫迪在周四下午给团队的一封内部邮件中写道。那之后呢？他并不确定，但他不称之为退休。他说自己依然感到年轻有活力，心中有些想法，但他强调尚未制定任何计划。梅赫迪表示，他一直在与微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉和首席营销官武藤壮志密切合作，制定过渡方案。微软尚未任命继任者，他表示现在确定他离职后的领导架构还为时过早。未来一年的工作重点将包括：为智能体时代定位Windows，将Microsoft Copilot整合为工作与个人生活的无缝体验，以及在Microsoft 365消费者业务接近1亿订阅用户时扩大其规模。他特别提到，在Windows方面的工作“有些诗意”，因为那是他职业生涯的起点。梅赫迪在微软的职业生涯几乎触及了公司推出的所有主要消费者产品。他于1991年以实习生身份加入，当时二十多岁，此前曾在路透社工作两年，从事外汇交易业务的计算机化产品。1992年，他在华盛顿大学获得MBA学位后正式加入微软全职工作，此前他已获得普林斯顿大学经济学学士学位。在早期参与Windows 3.1和Windows 95的发布工作后，梅赫迪在浏览器大战期间帮助推出并营销了Internet Explorer。他花了十多年时间管理微软的在线服务和搜索业务，参与打造了必应，并在公司与雅虎的搜索与广告合作中发挥了核心作用。2011年，他调至Xbox部门，参与推出了Xbox One，并促成了与美国国家橄榄球联盟的合作，使Surface平板电脑出现在赛场边线。后来，他负责将Windows 10部署到超过10亿台设备，并在帕诺斯·帕奈于2023年离职后接管了Windows和Surface业务。同年，他被提升至微软高级领导团队中的现任职位，成为公司消费者人工智能推广的公众面孔——从推出AI驱动的必应搜索引擎到营销Microsoft Copilot。梅赫迪计划在微软下一个财年结束（即2027年6月30日）前留任。

英文来源：

Yusuf Mehdi, one of Microsoft’s best-known and longest-serving business leaders, whose tenure has spanned 35 years from Windows 3.1 to Copilot, plans to leave the company after one more year — his “final season,” 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, Microsoft 365 consumer, Edge, and Bing search engine. He announced his plan Thursday, saying he intends to work at full intensity through the next fiscal year, ensuring succession plans are in place, before stepping away from the company that has been, as he put it, “the canvas of my life’s work.”
He compared it to picking a ship date for a product, something he’s had a lot of experience with during his time at the company. You put it on the calendar, and you work toward it.
“There will be time later to reflect and celebrate, but for now, it’s full speed ahead on our mission,” Mehdi wrote in an internal email to his team on Thursday afternoon.
After that? He’s not sure, but he’s not calling it retirement. He said he still feels young and energetic, and he has some ideas in mind, but he emphasized that he hasn’t made any plans.
Mehdi said he has been working closely with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Chief Marketing Officer Takeshi Numoto on the transition plan. Microsoft has not named a successor, and he said it’s too early to determine what the leadership structure will look like after his departure.
His priorities over the next year will include positioning Windows for the agentic era, unifying Microsoft Copilot as a seamless experience across work and personal lives, and scaling the Microsoft 365 consumer business as it approaches 100 million subscriptions.
His work on Windows, in particular, is “a little poetic,” he said, since that’s where he started.
Mehdi’s career at Microsoft has touched nearly every major consumer product the company has shipped. He started as an intern in 1991, in his mid-20s, after a two-year stint at Reuters, where he worked on computer-based products for the foreign exchange trading business.
He joined Microsoft full-time in 1992 after earning his MBA from the University of Washington, adding to a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton.
After his early work on the launch of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, Mehdi went on to help launch and market Internet Explorer during the browser wars. He spent more than a decade running Microsoft’s online services and search businesses, helping build Bing and playing a central role in the company’s search and advertising partnership with Yahoo.
In 2011, he moved to the Xbox division, where he helped launch the Xbox One and forged the NFL partnership that put Surface tablets on the sidelines. He later oversaw the rollout of Windows 10 to more than 1 billion devices, and took on responsibility for the Windows and Surface businesses after Panos Panay’s departure in 2023.
That same year, he was promoted to his current role on Microsoft’s senior leadership team, becoming the public face of the company’s consumer AI push, from the launch of the AI-powered Bing search engine to the marketing of Microsoft Copilot.
Mehdi plans to stay through the end of Microsoft’s next fiscal year, June 30, 2027.