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Niall Kennedy, formerly of Technorati, quit his job at Microsoft after only 4 months, saying the company lacks commitment to the online services platform he was tasked with creating, and that it failed to provide him support and resources. His project was to include unified systems for integrating address books, RSS feeds, photos and other user content across the Windows Live platform. According to Kennedy, Microsoft expected him to accomplish the task alone, which was impossible.

Read Niall Kennedy’s blog posting about his departure from Microsoft.

Many months after Microsoft announced Windows Live to some fanfare, very little has been heard about its progress. Now it appears that’s because they’ve had a single person working on it. Ha! I’m surprised they allowed Kennedy to publicly announce his reasons for leaving, especially since his reason makes it clear that the company’s trash talking about its search competitors isn’t backed up by anything.

Even I have three people working for me, and I’m not tasked with trying to overthrow Google!