J Allard, the onetime Microsoft executive who was a co-founder of Xbox, left Intellivision Entertainment last year, shortly after joining that company to be global managing director. News of Allard… ...

J Allard is back in the game. The onetime Microsoft executive, who was a co-founder of Xbox and a force in the video game industry before leaving the tech ...

James Allard (he goes by J Allard) was recruited by Microsoft in 1991 and went on to deliver over 40 products, was awarded over 50 patents, and helped build four multibillion-dollar businesses.

The Project 529 team. J Allard knows first-hand how miserable it can be to try and recover a stolen bicycle. Now the Xbox co-founder has dedicated his new career to making sure fewer people ...

Since Microsoft acknowledged officially a couple of weeks ago that the powers-that-be there decided to nix the Courier Tablet, the question I've gotten most often is "So what's J Allard's next trick?" ...

You can say lots of things about Microsoft’s outspoken J Allard, but one thing you can’t say is that he doesn’t make good on his wagers. It all started over a well-lubricated dinner in 2005 ...

J Allard, who most recently helped give the Xbox and the Zune a really, really good user experience has gotten a promotion to “Chief Experience Officer” of the Entertainment and Devices devision.

Allard and his team did fine work on the 360 and helped make Xbox Live a best-of-breed service. He also helped design the Zune, but Lee handled the business aspects of the player.

Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal took some time today to attempt to collect on a bet from a newly reborn J Allard, who appears on the cover of the latest issue of BusinessWeek. Asks Croal: The bet ...

This article is more than 10 years old. J Allard, the mysteriously-titled Chief Experience Officer of Microsoft, was one of two top execs to announce his resignation Tuesday.