Rahul Sood, the man behind HP-owned “luxury personal computer manufacturer” VooDoo PC and also CTO of HP’s gaming business has decided to have a swift dig at Microsoft today.

Sood claims that Microsoft is burying a project that would allow Xbox and PC gamers to play against each other, and the reason they’re doing so is that console players would be beaten most of the time.

“There was a project that got killed at Microsoft. This project was designed to allow console gamers and PC gamers to interact and battle over a connected environment,” Sood wrote in his blog.

“Personally I wish it would have stayed the course. I’ve heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best console gamers to play mediocre PC gamers at the same game… and guess what happened? They pitted console gamers with their ‘console’ controller, against PC gamers with their keyboard and mouse. The console players got destroyed every time. So much so that it would be embarrassing to the Xbox team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative.”

He added, “Is this why the project was killed Who [sic] knows, but I’d love to hear from anyone involved — what happened?”

Sood went on to say that “You simply don’t get the same level of detail or control as you do with a PC over a console”, adding that it’s a “real shame that Microsoft killed this”.

The obviously annoyed CTO said that the “scale of the PC” would have allowed Microsoft to get away from the hardware business and focus on their core, software. “Perhaps we could have finally integrated the Xbox into the PC. Perhaps not, all of this is over now, there is no looking back.”

There’s no doubt that Microsoft look upon PC gaming as a secondary concern (at best) to consoles but killing a project like this seems a rather petty step if what Sood says is true. Then again, Sood has his own vested interests here so his views can’t exactly be taken as gospel without some response from Microsoft. Whether they’ll even bother coming back at him is doubtful though.