A senior executive leaving Microsoft might not always be the right of signs for the corporate and / or the exec, nevertheless it appears that Charlie Kindel’s just-announced departure is an amicable one for all involved. Kindel, as you’ll be aware, have been with Microsoft for 21 years, and most recently served as general manager for the Windows Phone Developer Ecosystem following earlier terms leading up the Windows Home Server and eHome divisions. So why close up and leave rapidly? It kind of feels Kindel has decided it was an opportune time to launch his own startup, which he’s keeping suitably mysterious immediately (something to do with “sports, advertising, mobile, social-networking, and, needless to say, the cloud,” apparently). He has decidedly more to assert about Windows Phone, however, which he calls flat-out “the smartest product Microsoft has ever built” (emphasis his), and one which he won’t stop using after he leaves the corporate. Hit the links below for Kindel’s own message announcing his departure, plus an interview with GeekWire.
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