Summary: The Windows marketing corporate vice president (man behind Vista 7 marketing) quits Microsoft, but he joins his former colleagues in another company

Juniper Networks is already filled with many ex-Microsoft executives, including the company's current CEO. Well, according to this report, the Windows marketing corporate vice president joins them.

Brad Brooks joins the list of many others, not just presidents/vice presidents who quit Microsoft but also those who joined Juniper Networks immediately afterwards, e.g. [1, 2, 3].

One quick thing to add about it is that the fact that people who are associated with Windows are leaving simply means that something is not working there. One may often wonder, what is it that proprietary software actually does to limit people's freedom, by design? Here is an answer from the news:

Microsoft's much-maligned operating system Vista has proven the third most effective PC tool available to parents to filter out inappropriate web content for children, according to tests by the European Commission.

But none of the 26 products tested by the EC achieved a perfect score [pdf] when it came to filter capabilities.

As Glyn Moody put it, "MS Vista finds its niche at last: censorship".

The reality behind Vista 7 suggests that it's just like Vista under the hood, in which case the above applies to it too. Vista 7 is not doing it for Microsoft because Windows profits continue to decline. Brooks' departure therefore makes a lot of sense. ⬆