By Todd Spangler
Publication Date: 2026-04-23 19:30:00
Microsoft’s gaming business is going back to its original name: Xbox.
Four years after the tech giant changed the division’s name to Microsoft Gaming, its leaders have decided to change the name back to Xbox and laid out their vision for the next stage of the business.
“‘Microsoft Gaming’ describes our structure but it does not describe our ambition. So, we are going back to where we started and changing our team’s name,” CEO Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty said in a memo to staffers Thursday.
“To achieve our master plan, the way we work must transform,” Sharma and Booty said in the memo, titled “We Are Xbox.”
Sharma, most recently president of product development for Microsoft’s CoreAI division, took over leadership of Microsoft’s games division in February following the exit of Phil Spencer. The company had officially adopted the Microsoft Gaming name in January 2022, when Microsoft announced its deal…
