Chris was my direct manager for two or three of my years at MSFT. He genuinely cares about the web in a way that always surprised people outside of Microsoft. (He was also good at being pragmatic about what could be done within the company). He's been around since the NCSA days and really knows his stuff. This is MSFTs loss.
I once watched a panel discussion with him and a representative from Opera and Mozilla. I never understood how someone who is as likeable as him could come up with something as evil as Internet Explorer 6-8.
"moving from microsoft to google": 2870 hits, most of which seem to be about changing jobs in that direction. "moving from google to microsoft": 7 hits. only one of which seems to be about changing jobs.<p>Perhaps I'd have got different results with Bing?<p>... Always keen to spoil a joke, I tried, and actually the answer is yes. 37 and 4. Perhaps half of the 37 were about job moves; none of the 4.