RSS Guru Niall Kennedy Quits Microsoft

One of Microsoft's biggest hires this year is leaving after only four months with the company. RSS guru and former Technorati engineer Niall Kennedy announced through his personal blog Tuesday that he was leaving Microsoft effective August 18 out of apparent frustration with the company's handling of Windows Live. According to Kennedy, the company was not providing him with the resources or manpower to complete his job.

"Windows Live is under some heavy change, reorganization, pullback, and general paralysis and unfortunately my ability to perform, hire, and execute was completely frozen as well," he explained. "It's easier to get funding outside Microsoft than inside at the moment, so I am stepping out and doing my own thing." Kennedy said he could have waited it out, but didn't "want to sit around doing little to nothing until Vista, Office, and Exchange ship."