An inside view of life at Amazon, from a Microsoft veteran

Brandon Watson

Brandon Watson has been at Amazon for all of three months, and he admits he’s still in his honeymoon phase. But he has a unique perspective on life at the Seattle company in part because of his history at Microsoft, where he was one of the leaders of the Windows Phone team. In a post on… Read More…

Windows Phone app leader goes to Amazon Kindle team

Brandon Watson

Brandon Watson, who oversaw Windows Phone’s work with third-party app developers, is leaving Microsoft to join Amazon.com’s Kindle team. Watson confirmed the news on Twitter and said in a message that he’ll be working on the Kindle cross-platform team. As Mary Jo Foley notes at ZDNet, that group makes Kindle apps for a variety of… Read More…