{"id":1124,"date":"2014-12-30T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2014-12-30T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:38:30","slug":"xbox-live-founder-leaves-microsoft-after-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live Founder Leaves Microsoft After 17 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft engineer Boyd\u00a0Multerer has announced that he has left the company in pursuit of \u201csomething new\u201d after 17 years of incredible achievements under the Xbox umbrella. He is best known for developing the online component that would eventually become Xbox Live, but his reach extends into other Xbox areas as well, such as indie gaming and the design of the Xbox One.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He made the announcement through his Twitter account with no hints at where he would be heading next.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Goodbye Microsoft. It was a good run. Xbox was Great! Time to do something new.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boyd Multerer (@BoydMulterer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoydMulterer\/status\/549571070693765120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Multerer first joined Microsoft in 1997, and was put to work on \u201cXbox Online,\u201d as it was called at the time, in 2000. Many years later, he also found another foothold in Microsoft through the XNA\u00a0Game Studio and XNA framework, which allowed indie studios to publish their games easily on the Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, he was acting as\u00a0Director of Development for Xbox, having oversight over technical aspects of the Xbox One console. His departure follows many other high profile employees from the early days of the Xbox. We can\u2019t wait to see where he ends up next.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">VIA<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/12\/29\/7463797\/xbox-live-founder-boyd-multerer-leaves-microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLYGON<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft engineer Boyd\u00a0Multerer has announced that he has left the company in pursuit of \u201csomething new\u201d after 17 years of incredible achievements under the Xbox umbrella. He is best known for developing the online component that would eventually become Xbox Live, but his reach extends into other Xbox areas as well, such as indie gaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}