Xbox Co-Founder J Allard Joins Amazon - News

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J Allard, a founding member of Xbox, Windows NT and Internet Information Server at Microsoft, has joined Amazon as the Vice President of the company's Devices and Services team.

Amazon told GeekWire he is working under former Microsoft Windows and Devices executive Panos Panay, who joined Amazon last year to lead the Devices and Services team.

Allard told The Verge in an email said it's "too early to have anything to say," about what he'll be working on beyond "new ideas."

He worked at Microsoft from 1991 to 2010 and helped ship over 40 products at the company. He led teams of up to 3,000 people. He co-founded Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Arcade, and Xbox 360.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

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Leynos (on 02 October 2024)

He joined then bounced at Intelliviion Amico. Someone will beg him to come back to Xbox but that ship has crossed the ocean blue.

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