When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

" 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.