Xbox Founder, Internal Slate Advocate Leaves Microsoft
    		One of the few real consumer stars at Microsoft submitted  his resignation this week, according to Seattle  Times blogger Brier Dudley.
		To review Otto Berkes' career at Microsoft is to tour the  company's great consumer successes and its most promising scuttled consumer projects.
  
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		Berkes was the last of the four original Xbox founders still  at the company, built the slate-like touchscreen computing device that Bill  Gates showed at a 2005 conference, worked on the Courier project, served as  general manager for former Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and most recently  was involved in Bing datacenter design.
		In an exit interview with Dudley,  Berkes declined to pin his departure on the environment at Microsoft or  complain about current management. In explaining his move to a company he  wouldn't identify after 18 years at Microsoft, he said, "No regrets, but  it's time to move on for me...I'm very proud of what I was able to accomplish  here."
		Check out the blog  post; it's a good read with a lot of valuable context if you're interested  in Microsoft and its future. Microsoft will have a tougher time catching the  consumerization wave that is breaking over IT without Berkes' experienced eye.
 
	Posted by Scott Bekker on May 26, 2011