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The man responsible for Xbox Live is leaving Microsoft.

Boyd Multerer is no longer at the Xbox’s parent company (via Neowin). The engineer posted a “goodbye” this morning, saying that it was time for him to look into doing something new. This comes after 18 years with Microsoft. During that time, Multerer launched the Xbox Live online networking service and created the XNA game-development language.

Goodbye Microsoft. It was a good run. Xbox was Great! Time to do something new.

— Boyd Multerer (@BoydMulterer) December 29, 2014
As director of development for Microsoft’s Xbox division, Multerer was most recently responsible for helping to design the Xbox One. He was key to giving Microsoft’s latest gaming hardware three different operating systems to let it quickly jump between games, apps, and the menu system.