The last remaining Xbox founder that was still working for Microsoft, Otto Berkes, handed in his resignation earlier today.
Berkes seems to have left the company on good terms stating, "No regrets, but it's time to move on for me. I'm very proud of what I was able to accomplish here."
"It's a good time for me to make a transition to a different set of challenges and something new and fresh," he said.(...)
"Otto definitely did have tighter affinities with Bill," recalled Ted Hase, another one of the four original Xbox founders, who left the company in 2006 and now develops slot machines for a company in Las Vegas.
"There was an aspect of Bill where Bill stayed somewhat of a dreamer. In those dreams come those flashes and those sparks of creativity. And I think the company has lost that which is a sad day."(...)
In 1998, Berkes and his team ordered a few Dell laptops, took them apart and built the first prototypes of a Windows gaming console.
Ed Fries was leading Microsoft's games publishing business when the four Xbox founders pitched a "Direct X Box" based on the Windows DirectX graphics technology that was developed by Berkes' team.
"He was one of the crazy guys who came in my office one day with this idea of doing this thing, making this Direct X box," Fries recalled. "They talked me into joining up with them and helping to make it happen. It wouldn't have happened without him."
"Otto definitely did have tighter affinities with Bill," recalled Ted Hase, another one of the four original Xbox founders, who left the company in 2006 and now develops slot machines for a company in Las Vegas.
"There was an aspect of Bill where Bill stayed somewhat of a dreamer. In those dreams come those flashes and those sparks of creativity. And I think the company has lost that which is a sad day."(...)
In 1998, Berkes and his team ordered a few Dell laptops, took them apart and built the first prototypes of a Windows gaming console.
Ed Fries was leading Microsoft's games publishing business when the four Xbox founders pitched a "Direct X Box" based on the Windows DirectX graphics technology that was developed by Berkes' team.
"He was one of the crazy guys who came in my office one day with this idea of doing this thing, making this Direct X box," Fries recalled. "They talked me into joining up with them and helping to make it happen. It wouldn't have happened without him."
Berkes seems to have left the company on good terms stating, "No regrets, but it's time to move on for me. I'm very proud of what I was able to accomplish here."