An internal email made public by Microsoft shows CEO Satya Nadella fine tuning his senior leadership team._ In in widely expected move Scott Guthrie has been from acting leader for the Cloud and Enterprise organization to Executive Vice President. Guthrie essentially takes over Nadella’s old position. Following Marc Whitten’s resignation, Phil Spencer has been promoted to take on a new role leading Xbox, combining the Xbox and Xbox Live development teams with the Microsoft Studios team._ Interestingly Spencer reports to Terry Myerson._ Yusuf Mehdi retains his position leading business strategy and marketing for Xbox. George Peckham will continue to_head up third-party partnerships with Xbox.__And we finally hear of Sinofsky lieutenant Mike Angiulo who will continue leading Xbox hardware. Also as expected Stephen Elop will join Microsoft as Executive Vice President, Microsoft Devices Group, reporting directly to Nadella._ The Nokia deal is now expected to close by the end of April._ Stephen will partner closely with Phil and Terry on Xbox and will bring together many of the top leaders from...

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