• PC Magazine, Tuesday, August 9, 2011 12:44 PM

Microsoft veteran Charlie Kindel announced his resignation on Monday, revealing that he plans to start his own company. Kindel spent 21 years at Microsoft, and was recently credited with leading the effort to recruit developers for the Windows Phone group. As a result, the Windows Phone platform has some 27,000 apps after about nine months on the market. Yet, the departure comes at a bad time for Microsoft, as its mobile efforts still trail far behind those of Apple and Google's Android mobile operating systems.

Kindel, however, expressed confidence on Monday that his colleagues at Microsoft had all the resources necessary to thrive in mobile and beyond. "There has been one constant in every job I've had at Microsoft," Kindel wrote on his personal blog on Monday. "People way smarter than me. Microsoft has always enabled me to 'play up.'" Other than its location in the Seattle area, Kindel said he was "not yet ready to disclose details about the new venture."

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