A few extra Microsoft veterans are leaving the organization, Microsoft acknowledged this week.Bing Item Advancement Manager Hugh Williams is out and heading to eBay to lead its search improvement crew. One company insider known as Williams; defection a “huge loss” for Microsoft;s lookup unit. As Silicon Alley Insider,
Office 2010 Download, which broke the news, noted, Williams; bio listed, among his responsibilities, the management of all user-facing web-search relevance features. Williams was set to join the Internet Explorer crew about a year ago but ended up not making the move, I hear.Williams isn;t the only former Microsoft lookup big-wig to jump to eBay. Chris Payne, the former head of Live Lookup and Dane Glasgow, Live Search;s former General Supervisor, are there, too. Payne is now eBay;s Vice President of Lookup and Glasgow is its Vice President of Engineering.Meanwhile, former Corporate Vice President of Microsoft;s Windows Hardware Ecosystem, Jawad Khaki, has announced officially his plans to leave Microsoft — two years after taking an extended “vacation.” In 2007, Khaki;s position was eliminated and since then he;s been in a “transitional role.” As TechFlash reported earlier this week, the 20-year Microsoft veteran Khaki is leaving Microsoft officially at the end of June to pursue various philanthropic and technical interests.