BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 04: Microsoft's Helen Chiang speaks onstage during the Variety Leaders in Gaming & Entertainment Breakfast presented by Pixel United at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on October 04, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Variety via Getty Images)
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"This is not how I ever imagined my story here would end. And it is not the whole story."

Longtime Microsoft executive Helen Chiang was made Xbox's first-ever chief operating officer as part of the 'reset' in July, a role that gave her "end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services." Then, just three months later and with virtually no fanfare, she was gone, amidst an anonymous claim that she was "terminated for policy violations."