Vijay Gill – the man who oversaw The Google Network – is now at Microsoft, according to sources familiar with his move. According to Gill's LinkedIn profile, he departed Google last month, and though neither Google nor Microsoft will comment on his departure, sources tell The Register that he has moved to Redmond. Vijay Gill …

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Friday 3rd June 2011 17:19 GMT NoneSuch

I will bet serious money...

...the corporate atmosphere in Redmond is quite a bit different than Chocolate City.

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Friday 3rd June 2011 17:19 GMT Levente Szileszky

About time - maybe Microsoft BPOS stop being...

...bigPOS and actually starts resembling a real service offering that companies can use for critical business processes?

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1. Friday 3rd June 2011 20:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  For BPOS their network isn't the problem
  
  From what I've seen of it their architecture is pretty good. It's their immature service management and offering design that's the problem.
  
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Friday 3rd June 2011 17:34 GMT NoOneSpecific

Betting SONY wishes...

I'm betting SONY wishes they had him right about now. LOL

I know we all are!

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Friday 3rd June 2011 20:00 GMT crowley

Credit for credit

Good of Vijay to step in and spread some love for the old gang.

I hope he finds the team and culture at MS as satisfying as he's enjoyed as Google.

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1. Monday 6th June 2011 12:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  He will
  
  He was reporting to a plonka in Google, will be reporting to a plonka in Microsoft.
  
  Dunno if LinkedIn has garbled the spelling here a bit.
  
  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jonathon-plonka/0/a7a/a0
  
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Friday 3rd June 2011 20:01 GMT Anonymous Coward

Not unexpected

Google has been hiring conventional next gen telecoms people including people that do backends (the few survivors in the age of outsourcing which can still write a working OSS/BSS). It is either going conventional or is going for the jugular of the incumbent telcos to ensure its revenue streams or both.

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Friday 3rd June 2011 20:04 GMT The Dodoman

No more ads for me...

No more enhanced networks for all them ad-clickin folk...

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Friday 3rd June 2011 20:05 GMT Anonymous Coward

The backbone's related to the infrastructure

Infrastructure's related to the front end,

The front end's related to the UEX,

UEX is related to ad revenue,

Revenue's related to the bonus,

Now put your stuff in the cloud,

Packets, packets,

Dem packets,

Packets, packets,

Dem packets,

Packets, packets,

Dem packets

Put your stuff in the cloud

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Monday 6th June 2011 15:45 GMT Andy Farley

What MS really need to sort out

Is their billing.

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