Scobleizer Setting Us Straight

Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft. Scoble is joining PodTech.net, the podcasting network. He will be moving from Seattle to Silicon Valley, and will be bloggin about his life down there.

Big news for folks like us, who rely on the MS blogging community (internally) to keep us informed. No more Robert Scoble to kick around.

However, he posted a response to TechMeme about his departure, saying that recent articles there really "chapped his hide."

here's part of Robert's response:

I love Microsoft and Microsoft did not lose me — at least as a supporter and friend. I am not throwing away my Tablet PC or my Xbox or my other Microsoft stuff. :-)

.... no one at Microsoft has complained to me about my views for a very long time. In fact, the harsher I got the more support I got. Friday I visited with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. Management at Microsoft didn't say a thing about that. Imagine if your employees went to your fiercest competitor and had a very public lunch, wouldn't you be up in arms? Not at Microsoft. At Microsoft I am encouraged to change the world and make things better for our customers.

So these are good things to know... and why are you leaving Microsoft then, Robert?