The Man Who Introduced Microsoft to Open Source Leaves For HP

Bill Hilf, late of Microsoft, now of HP. Photo: Microsoft

Hewlett-Packard has hired the man who introduced Microsoft to the notion of open source. His job? To transform HP into a serious cloud player.

Bill Hilf — who also served as general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud service — left Microsoft for HP this summer, and now serves as HP’s ‎vice president of converged cloud products and services. That means he oversees strategy not only for the HP cloud service — a direct competitor to Windows Azure and the leader in the cloud game, Amazon Web Services — but also for the HP software and hardware tools the let businesses build private cloud-like services in their own data centers.

“My job is build the future portfolio for HP across the board,” he tells WIRED. “That’s what I’m in the throes of doing right now.”

He made the switch to HP back in June, but the news was not previously reported — although Hilf listed his new job on his Linkedin profile. Though he spends much of his time at HP’s offices in Silicon Valley, he still makes his home in Seattle, Washington, where HP also has an office.

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