Former Internet Explorer chief and 24 year Microsoft veteran, Dean Hachamovitch has left Microsoft. Hachamovitch was responsible for overseeing development of Internet Explorer for the last decade.

He apparently joined Microsoft with the idea of making Microsoft Word cooler than what Apple was doing. Hachamovitch said that the company has really changed quite a bit since he joined in 1990, and that he was long overdue for a change. He was the general manager of the Internet Explorer team since 2003 and lead it through its boom times.

In 2006, when IE lost market share to competitors like Mozilla's Firefox. Hachamovitch publicly took the blame for the failure of Internet Explorer, stating "We messed up". Last year he became chief data scientist during the restructuring of the Windows team. This time he used more aggressive tactics to improve the browser, dramatically increasing the security of Internet Explorer and sparking the adoption of HTML 5.

His last act is to make sure that future IE browsers will use extensions used on both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.