Three more Microsoft executives jump ship

Three more Microsoft executives left the company this week, just days afterwards the announcement that CEO Steve Ballmer is replacing Bob Muglia at the top of the Server and Tools Business.

Three more Microsoft executives left the company this week just days afterwards CEO Steve Ballmer decided to replace Bob Muglia at the top of the Server and Tools Business.

Juniper Networks has snagged Brad Brooks, who was corporate vice president for Windows consumer marketing and product management. Salesforce.com, in the meantime, hired away Matt Miszewski, who was general manager of Microsoft's government business. And Google hired Johnny Chung Lee, who was a key force in Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 product.

"Most recently at Microsoft, Brooks led the consumer business for the Windows client," Juniper said. "In this role, he oversaw the launch of Windows 7, the most successful launch in Microsoft's history. Prior to Microsoft, Brooks held product management, business development, marketing and sales roles at Lucent Technologies and AT&T. Early in his career, he worked as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government."

At Salesforce.com, Miszewski will be senior vice president of the company's Global Public Sector business, with the goal of helping "governments make their citizens more successful through the power of cloud computing," Salesforce said. Miszewski spent three years at Microsoft, where he "acted as a trusted strategic adviser to national, regional and local government leaders to help them create an information and communications research environment that supports their individual policy agendas and their citizens."