MS head of developer experiences for Windows Phone leaves for Amazon

[Project 2501]

The head of developer experiences for Windows Phone has left Microsoft to be Director of the Kindle Cross Platform team for Amazon.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/...dle-team/11814

Summary: Brandon Watson, head of, is the latest exec to leave the Microsoft’s phone unit.

Brandon Watson, known to many Windows Phone developers as head of the WP Developer Experience, is leaving Microsoft for Amazon.

It’s not just any job at Amazon, either. Watson is going to be the Director of the Kindle Cross Platform team. There he will be working on the product development roadmap for Kindle apps across all first- and third-party platforms worldwide, including the Windows Phone app and the Windows 8 app.

Watson confirmed his departure via e-mail, telling me “it was a hard decision, but the opportunity placed in front of me that was too big to pass up.”

[work4turk]

Amazon has a serious hit with the Kindle Fire and definitely needs to ramp up app development exponentially to deal with it's success. I guess Google job benefits are just too good for anyone to jump ship.