Office Standard 2007 Danny Thorpe quits the Window

Danny Thorpe, one of the higher-profile hires Microsoft created to its Windows Reside group, has decided to depart for greener pastures.Thorpe joined Microsoft from Borland (by way of a stint at Google). He's recognized as one of the major movers and shakers behind the Borland;s Delphi programmnig language. He served because the Chief Scientist for Windows and .Net developer tools at Borland for a year-plus,Cheap Office 2010, too. Thorpe joined Microsoft as a member with the Windows Reside dev crew in April 2006. Thorpe announced his ideas to leave Microsoft, through his weblog, on October 5. Thorpe explained:“I;ve been approached by startups before, but most are easy to dismiss for the reason that they have no funding. No matter how good the idea, I can;t afford to work for IOUs. This 1 was different. Disruptive ideas,Office Standard 2007, razor sharp staff, and recently funded by Kleiner Perkins. Properly that;s different.“As fate would have it, my next gig will be at CoolIris, building browser plugins that are one part eye candy an two parts antimatter disrupter.“While I will be leaving the Microsoft payroll, I won;t be leaving the Windows Live arena. I;m moving from the service producer to the service consumer side with the field. CoolIris will quickly need user logins,Windows 7 Enterprise Key, address books, photos,Office Standard 2010 Key, and storage, and I will certainly make sure they are aware of Windows Reside;s service offerings. We should definitely leverage rather than build out infrastructure.”The LiveSide.Net folks note that Thorpe isn;t the only recent well-known Windows Reside defector. A couple of other search-focused execs — Bubba Murarka and Erik Selberg — have left the fold recently also.Microsoft has been reticent to share about what;s next on the Windows Live platform/development front. Company officials have declined to discuss Microsoft;s announcement, expected next month, of a new Windows Reside developer toolkit (akin to the Microsoft Facebook toolkit).I;ve also had no luck getting the Reside dev folks to go on record about how they plan to open up access to more programming interfaces and data; they won;t say anything more than what they said six months ago at Mix ‘07. With Facebook and Google getting all the kudos lately for their API openness,Office Home And Stude/nt 2010, you;d think Microsoft might be a little more forthcoming about what it is doing in this arena…