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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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  1. NoneSuch Silver badge
    Happy

    I will bet serious money...

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

  2. 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?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Unhappy

      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.

  3. NoOneSpecific
    Happy

    Betting SONY wishes...

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

    I know we all are!

  4. 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.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Devil

      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

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Devil

    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.

  6. The Dodoman
    Happy

    No more ads for me...

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

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    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

  8. Andy Farley
    Holmes

    What MS really need to sort out

    Is their billing.

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