Google Loses Engineering Director To VMware

July 15th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under

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After nearly 5 years with the company, Engineering Director Mark Lucovsky has left Google for a role with  VMware, TechCrunch has learned.

Before Google, Lucovsky worked at DEC and then  Microsoft for 16 years, eventually gaining the title of “Distinguished Engineer.” He had been the principle architect on Windows NT, which would eventually evolve into Windows XP. Lucovsky was also the architect of Microsoft’s  Hailstorm project to port older Microsoft products into .NET.

A famous anecdote recounted on TechCrunch:

But Lucovsky may be best known for the role he played in a complete and utter meltdown that Microsoft CEO  Steve Ballmer once had. As the NT architect, Lucovsky was clearly pretty vital to Microsoft, so when he went in for a meeting with Ballmer in 2004 to let him know he was leaving, you can be sure the CEO was a bit on edge.

“Just tell me it’s not Google,” Ballmer  reportedly said according to court documents (for a case surrounding another Google ex-Microsoft hire). When Lucovsky said it was Google, Ballmer allegedly picked up a chair and threw it across the room.

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  1. Comment by currency on 16 July 2009:

    Kind of funny– my parents have a google voice number before I do

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