Microsoft has recently lost one of its brilliant employees, named Charlie Kindel, who was responsible for managing the Windows Phone group.
Charlie, after 21 years with Microsoft, has resigned to start up his own company soon. He posted about it on his personal blog. He was one of Microsoft's most important assets as he and his team has done a great job improving Windows Phone platform that has attracted both developers and consumers at a very short period of time.
In his fairly long good-bye mail intended for all his colleagues at Microsoft, he has joked around pretty much. He wrote [telling his kids] that just because he leaves Microsoft doesn't mean they [his children] may not use Google. This is where we find a similarity between him and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who is known to buy his kids Zunes preventing them from using iPods.