14 DAY TRIAL // Chris Wilson, the man who once was the IE Platform Architect at Microsoft and has been working for the company for the last 15 years, announced that he will be joining Google in November.
Wilson said he is taking a month off and then will be joining Google as a Developer Advocate, working out of Google’s Fremont, Washington, offices.
He will not be working on Chrome though, at least for the next year until the end of his contract with Microsoft.
With the release of Internet Explore 9 Beta last week, it seems a bit odd that Wilson chose this time to move to Google.
He explains on his blog that he “reached the conclusion that I’d helped IE along as much as I could, I felt it was a good time to reassess where I ultimately want to go with my career, and I realized that I really needed to stretch my wings beyond Microsoft.”
Wilson has joined Microsoft's Internet Explorer Team fifteen years ago, back in 1995, and from there he became the “IE Platform Architect” and worked on the web browser up to its 9 version.
He got to be the Principal Program Manager of the Open Web Platform in Microsoft’s Developer Division and worked with the team that built Internet Explorer 9's JavaScript engine, Chakra.
On his blog he said that all this time spent at Microsoft was “a tremendous learning experience for me; I can hardly begin to describe how much I’ve learned, how many different experiences I’ve had, and how many fantastic people I’ve had the privilege of meeting and working with (both inside and outside the company).”
Further on he mentions that Google is an innovator of the web and that he wants to work on continually building the consumer a better web platform.
Chris Wilson ends his post by saying that he “would like to thank all the wonderful friends I’ve made at (and through) Microsoft, and actively express my desire to keep in touch.”