Vic Gundotra leaves Microsoft for Google

Microsoft’s problems are escalating, as their top executives are moving on to their prime rivals Google. The latest in this list is Vic Gundotra who is a 15-year veteran general manager at Microsoft Corp.

He has left the software giant to join the search engine company after a break of one-year period. He had been at Microsoft for the past 15 years and worked as general manager for platform evangelism to get software developers to use Microsoft’s software and online offerings when creating new programs.

He joins a long list of former MS employees to join Google. The list includes Kai-Fu Lee, who headed Microsoft’s China business; Mark Lucovsky, a top engineer; and Adam Bosworth, a former general manager and software expert.

Google representative Steve Langdon spoke about this appointment: “We are uncertain what precise role he will play when he begins working for Google, but he has a broad range of skills and experience which we believe will be valuable to Google.”

He is taking a year’s break to get past the contract requirement, which probably forbids him to work at a competitor for a particular time period.