Windows exec Brad Brooks leaving Microsoft for Juniper

Brad Brooks, corporate vice president in Microsoft's Windows group, is leaving the company to join Juniper Networks.

He will become vice president of worldwide enterprise marketing and solutions at the network technology company based in Sunnyvale, Calif. The company announced Brooks' hire on Wednesday. Juniper is run by another Microsoft expatriate, Chief Executive Kevin Johnson, who previously served as president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services division.

Brooks has been head of Windows Consumer Marketing and Product Management at Microsoft, and worked on marketing during the launch of Windows 7. The ad campaign slogan credited the new features in Windows 7 to ordinary people with the tag line "Windows 7 was my idea."

Previously he led marketing for the Windows Business group. He first joined Microsoft in 2002 to work on Windows XP Media Center Edition.

Before joining Microsoft, Brooks worked at Lucent and AT&T. At one point he also worked as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government, according to Juniper.

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