Darren Laybourn is leaving Microsoft after 22 years. A corporate VP in the office of the chief technology officer, he joined the former Great Plains Software in March 2004 and was an EVP when that company was acquired by Microsoft. 

Dewey Forrester, VP of the mid-market partner team, has left Bill. He worked at the payments software company from June 2021 through this month.

 Dynamics 365 Copilot has been announced this week by Microsoft for the lines CRM and ERP applications. Copilot utilizes artificial intelligent and natural language to generate both ideas and content. Copilot features are in preview in Dynamics 365 applications and Microsoft Viva Sales.