{"id":651959,"date":"2013-04-11T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=430793"},"modified":"2013-04-11T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:05:58","slug":"microsoft-exec-resigns-after-telling-users-to-deal-with-it-regarding-always-on-xbox-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651959","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft exec resigns after telling users to \u2018deal with it\u2019 regarding always-on Xbox controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/microsoft-executive-resigns-xbox-always-on-430793\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"489\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/microsoft-xbox-360-close.jpg?w=650&amp;h=489&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Executive Resigns\" title=\"Microsoft Xbox 360\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>) executive who sparked controversy after <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/microsoft-executive-xbox-720-criticism-response-416859\/\">making public statements regarding unannounced Microsoft products<\/a> is no longer with the company.\u00a0Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth made news last week when he publicly responded to concerns that the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/xbox-720\">next-generation Xbox<\/a> might require an always-on Internet connection to operate. Orth said he was confused by the concern and then\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/microsoft-executive-xbox-720-criticism-response-416859\/\">told customers to &#8220;deal with it.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Now, according to unnamed sources speaking with video game industry blog <em>GameInformer<\/em>, Orth has voluntarily resigned. Microsoft has not confirmed Orth&#8217;s departure, however <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2013\/04\/10\/following-twitter-tirade_2c00_-microsoft-designer-adam-orth-resigns.aspx\"><em>GameInformer<\/em> states<\/a> that a call to the company&#8217;s headquarters confirmed that he is no longer with the company.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/9dTOF0qKPZs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft (MSFT) executive who sparked controversy after making public statements regarding unannounced Microsoft products is no longer with the company.\u00a0Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth made news last week when he publicly responded to concerns that the next-generation Xbox might require an always-on Internet connection to operate. Orth said he was confused by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}