cela

The cela tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's Corporate, External and Legal Affairs organization and the corporate decisions tied to it. Current discussion centers on Microsoft moving its corporate communications group out of marketing and into CELA, the organization led by Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, as announced by CEO Satya Nadella in a September 24, 2026 internal memo. The thread notes that Brent Colburn will lead communications on an interim basis following the departure of communications chief Frank X. Shaw, and that the change is permanent, placing public messaging alongside Microsoft's legal, regulatory and government-relations work.