Mike Toutonghi
Technical Fellow
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With over 25 years in the high tech industry, Mike Toutonghi is inventor or co-inventor of more than 19 issued patents and 30 patent applications. Toutonghi started his first software company in the early ‘80s, pursuing an interest in advanced computing platforms. Before finding his home at Microsoft, Toutonghi’s second solely developed commercial product, a multitasking shell called Omniview, won in a head-to-head Infoworld review against Desqview and Windows 2.0. From the ‘80s through the early ‘90s, Toutonghi also developed custom operating systems, built package scanning and tracking systems, created windowed application environments, and designed and built hardware control layers.
Toutonghi first joined Microsoft in 1992 to work on Windows 95, where he led development on the kernel team. After the launch of Windows 95, he started and managed Microsoft’s Java Virtual Machine development, started and managed the Common Language Runtime team as an architect and product unit manager and co-founded and managed the .NET platform effort. Later, as both a distinguished engineer and corporate vice president, Toutonghi started and managed Microsoft’s eHome division, which shipped Windows XP Media Center Edition in 2002. Toutonghi left Microsoft in 2003.
In late 2003, Toutonghi started Vizrea, later renamed WebFives, to enable people to share photos, videos and music, and connect with friends across PCs, phones and portable devices. Microsoft purchased WebFives in 2007, and Toutonghi rejoined the company as a Technical Fellow, working on Microsoft’s Advertising Platform.
Toutonghi currently leads the Advertising Platform Architecture Team, focusing on architectural design and integration of Microsoft’s platform assets, technologies and efforts.
