We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.

" According to Allard "The Tribe" is "a group of people diverse in perspective similar in skills and completely totally galvanized around one central purpose. " to Microsoft employees discussing his career history at Microsoft and attempting to instill inspiration to a group of employees at Microsoft named "The Tribe. Retirement
On May 25 2010 Allard along with Robbie Bach left Microsoft.

He also oversaw Microsoft's first foray into the video game industry the Xbox and he is also known to have contributed to the first edition of the specification for the Windows Sockets API with assistance from many others.