Should Amazon be ‘pumped’ to land Panos Panay? A closer look at the longtime Microsoft devices leader

Microsoft developed its first Surface tablet more than a decade ago under strict secrecy to give then-CEO Steve Ballmer the option to pull the plug shortly before it launched if the company’s PC partners objected. Yet the company needed top hardware engineers to devote themselves to the project. Mike Angiulo, the former Microsoft executive who was secretly in charge of the project under then-Windows chief Steven Sinofsky at the time, solved this dilemma with a strategic recruit from another part