During July 2014, Nadella and Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team will share more about the engineering and organization changes they believe are needed.

TRUE: between 2014-07-10 and 2014-07-31, Nadella and/or members of Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team communicated further details of the engineering and organizational changes, such as restructuring, layoffs or reorganized engineering processes, through internal emails or public statements reported at the time. MOSTLY TRUE: shared in July, with only minor detail missing, such as only Nadella communicating and not other SLT members. MOSTLY FALSE: the details were shared only after 2014-07-31, or only trivial or vague statements were made in July. FALSE: contemporaneous reporting shows no such communication was made in July 2014.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Starting to evolve our organization and culture - Source Microsoft News Center (Source) · 17 July 2014 Own record

   “As part of modernizing our engineering processes the expectations we have from each of our disciplines will change.”

2. E2 Microsoft layoffs: Operating systems group chief Myerson's memo to the troops ZDNET · 18 July 2014

   “Thus, today we are restructuring some parts of our team in three areas: consolidating some of our geographically distributed teams, cancelling some projects to increase investment on higher priorities, and changing the ratio of people working across disciplines as part of our new engineering process.”

3. E3 Microsoft cutting 18,000 jobs, 14% of company, in largest layoffs in its history GeekWire · 17 July 2014

   “In a separate email message, Microsoft devices leader Stephen Elop outlines the changes that will take place in the company’s smartphone and mobile devices unit, including a plan to stop using Android for the company’s future Nokia X lineup, shifting to Windows Phone instead.”

4. E4 Microsoft announces steps to simplify organization and align devices strategy - Source Microsoft News Center (Source) · 17 July 2014 Own record

   “The plans were outlined in an email from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Microsoft employees, and an email from Microsoft Executive Vice President Stephen Elop to Microsoft Devices Group employees.”

On 2014-07-17, Nadella emailed Microsoft employees about changes including "modernizing our engineering processes" (E1, E4). That same day Stephen Elop sent a separate email setting out changes to the devices unit, which GeekWire reported independently (E3). On 2014-07-18, ZDNET published a memo from operating systems group chief Myerson describing restructuring, team consolidation, cancelled projects and a new engineering process (E2). This shows that Nadella and other senior leaders shared specific engineering and organization changes between 2014-07-10 and 2014-07-31, so the promise was kept on time.