Cortana’s company vice president, Javier Soltero, is leaving Microsoft immediately after 4 several years with the corporation, he tweeted on Tuesday.  

‘I’ve created the choice to go away Microsoft,’ Soltero wrote. ‘The previous four several years have been an amazing practical experience. I am humbled to have been a element of constructing anything that 100M+ customers rely on just about every working day and grateful to have labored with some remarkable folks.’

Soltero will go away the corporation by the finish of the 12 months, in accordance to ZDNet, and return to entrepreneurial get the job done. He joined Microsoft in 2014 when the corporation bought email startup Acompli, which he co-launched. Soltero led Outlook and Outlook Cellular, and was afterwards head of approach for Business office. He commenced operating Cortana in March. 

Microsoft has been operating to change Cortana from a standalone assistant into an ‘assistance aide‘ in the age of Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri. In August, Microsoft and Amazon introduced a lengthy-awaited collaboration between Cortana and Alexa. 

Microsoft failed to instantly answer to a ask for for remark.