Microsoft’s former Outlook boss is now running Google’s G Suite business. Javier Soltero, who first joined Microsoft as part of the company’s acquisition of e-mail app Acompli back in 2014, was responsible for a series of major upgrades to Microsoft Outlook.
Soltero moved on to lead Microsoft’s Cortana personal assistant in 2018 as the Corporate Vice President, but he later left Microsoft near the end of 2018.
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Soltero has now joined Microsoft’s biggest competitor in the business, leading Google’s G Suite. “Some news on the professional front… I’ve joined Google to lead the G Suite team! The opportunity to work with this team on products that have such a profound impact on the lives of people around the world is a real and rare privilege. I’m excited to get to work,” Soltero announced.
Soltero, the new Vice President of G Suite at Google, will run both the consumer and business sides of G Suite, reporting directly to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, according to Axios.
Thom77
<p>I would think going from the Outlook boss to lead Cortana would be a career downgrade, especially in 2018. Either he was brought in based on his brilliance as a last resort to provide a miracle in the Cortana arena, or he was kicked down the ladder for opposite reasons to sink on a sinking ship. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall and see the political atmosphere behind decisions made deep within the den. </p>
Stooks
<p>Wrong time to be joining the G Suite team. </p><p><br></p><p>Microsoft has been killing them in Europe because of medical certifications. In the US the Military just chose Office 365 and the department of Interior just dumped G Suite for Office 365 last month which is a loss of 85,000 seats. </p>
dontbeevil
<blockquote><em><a href="#482560">In reply to BoItmanLives:</a></em></blockquote><p>I doubt he can do worst than this, he can only improve it</p>