Xbox is a home gaming console first released by Microsoft in 2001 . At that time, the Redmond company , the United States is hoping to compete with the PlayStation 2 game console made by Sony .
Nat Brown's name may not be heard in the universe of the gaming industry today . However , ideas and hard work while working with Microsoft produces ' embryo ' appearance Xbox .
In 1999 he worked on a project long term strategy and join a group and sell the idea of the Xbox . Then , development of the Xbox and then worked seriously with $ 1 billion fund by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer .
In a blog ' ilikecode.wordpress.com ' , Nat Brown had lived in Fairbanks , Alaska and Palo Alto , California . He is a graduate of Harvard and got a degree in Computer Science in 1992 .
Brown started his career at Microsoft in 1990 , working as a developer of Microsoft Publisher . His expertise in the field of programming , making it believed Microsoft to work on company projects . He was able to write the code for 16 - bit systems and 32 - bit , specializes in technology Object Linking and Embedding ( OLE ) and Component Object Model ( COM ) .
In 1995 , he occupies the position of manager of technical programs in OLE and COM , then as an architect in the Systems Division of work long-term plan . In 1997 , Brown designed a COM + object model for the development of a new generation of application programs and set extensions on the language of the computer system is now . NET , CLR and C # .
He left Microsoft in late 1999 and spent time and energy as a father . He recognizes that parenting is much more ' cool ' and more difficult than taking care when at Microsoft .
Now , Brown lived in Seattle , Washington and write coding apps for iOS and consulting with startup or sometimes large companies on mobile strategy . In 2004 , Brown joined or started several startups like iLike.com .
In mid- February 2013 , citing Huffingtonpost Brown , who said that Apple could seriously get into the realm of the gaming industry , even beating the PlayStation , Wii U and Xbox .
