Volish refugee spills the beans
MICROSOFT developer who fled the Redmond Vole hill after only four months has claimed that Window's Live is paralysed.
Niall Kennedy was hired to work on infrastructure technology for the project in April, but left claiming the multi-billion-dollar project was suffering from "general paralysis."
Kennedy was supposed to put together a team to build the technology needed to feed information across Live products using web technology such as RSS, and Atom.
Writing in his bog, Kennedy claims that Volish suits started to change their plans for Windows Live after the company's stock plummeted this year.
Wall Street was miffed that Vole was spending too much on upcoming product releases.
"Windows Live is under some heavy change, reorganization, pullback, and general paralysis and unfortunately my ability to perform, hire, and execute was completely frozen as well," Kennedy wrote.
Kennedy said that he decided to leave when he twigged that he wasn't going to get the resources and people he needed to build the team. In fact he was not allowed to hire anyone. A spokesVole told TechWeb that Microsoft was committed to Windows Live honest guv. More
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