Niall Kennedy Leaving Microsoft

Niall Kennedy is leaving Microsoft to found his own company after the problems encountered internally with the Windows Live Intiative.

I joined Microsoft in April excited to change the world and build an Internet-scale feed platform to power the experience of Microsoft's hundreds of millions of users as well as opening up the feed experience to outside developers to leverage in their own applications. The opportunity presented to me was extremely unique and a way to change how the world interacts with syndication technologies such as RSS, RDF, and Atom. The launch of Windows Live and Ray Ozzie's vision of Internet services disruption made me believe Microsoft was serious about the space and not being left behind in yet another emerging industry as they had been with the web browser and search.

Niall goes on to explain how everything went downhill from there leading to his decision to leave.

I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft's problem is that they are too concerned with their stock price with Steve Ballmer at the helm instead of doing what they know is right and creating world changing software.

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