Is This Why Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)’s CEO Left Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)?

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This doesn’t mean that Microsoft and Netflix are no longer on speaking terms. Netflix actually has a Windows Phone app on the market, which Redbox Instant surprisingly does not. That may change, naturally, in light of yesterday’s development.

However, just as Eric Schmidt left Apple’s board when it seemed as if Android and iOS were about to lock into battle, Hastings probably left so he wouldn’t have to be around as Microsoft’s popular Xbox LIVE platform would embrace rival video services.

There are no more long-lasting partnerships in tech. Everyone’s a serial monogamist.

The article Is This Why Netflix’s CEO Left Microsoft? originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Rick Aristotle Munarriz.

Longtime Fool contributor Rick Aristotle Munarriz owns shares of Netflix.

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