The founder of the Xbox Live service left the company Microsoft

Despite the fact that the game department of Microsoft is doing better, key employees continue to leave the company. Last year, Microsoft departed Don Matrix, who was at the helm of the Xbox One division, and now it's time to say goodbye to Boyd Malterer, who created Xbox Live's successful and profitable gaming service with his own hands.

Boyd Malterer worked in the company for 20 years (from 1994 to 2014). His services to the gaming unit of the Redmond giant is difficult to overestimate. Initially, he was hired to develop the online components of the original Xbox console, which eventually led to the emergence of an incredibly successful network service Xbox Live, which is now used by tens of millions of people around the world.

It was he who developed the toolkit for creating XNA games, thanks to which novice programmers could create and publish games for Microsoft devices with their own hands. The idea to sell digital copies of games for consoles in a specialized online store also belongs to Boyd Malterer.

The last years of his work in the company Boyd was developing a technical design for the console Xbox One, as well as cloud services for it, including remote rendering graphics and the calculation of physical processes on powerful servers.

"Good-bye, Microsoft! That was great. Xbox is a great console! But it's time for me to do something new, "Boyd wrote in his Twitter.

Recall that, in addition to Boyd Malterer and Don Matryk, over the past year, the division of Xbox left the head of production Mark Witten, heads of the now closed Xbox Entertainment Studios Nancy Tellem and Jordan Levine, as well as senior manager of the development of Xbox One TV Ben Smith.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/games/sozdatel-servisa-xbox-live-pokinul-kompaniyu-microsoft.html.