This morning, I had the opportunity to chat with Saunders, who's entering the BlackBerry world at a crucial time for BlackBerry customers, both enterprise and consumer; BlackBerry developers; and the Canadian company itself. But Saunders, a former Windows product manager for Microsoft and ex-developer relations chief of QNX Systems, the company that built the foundation for RIM's next generation BlackBerry platform, says he "loves the challenge" he now faces of breathing new life into the BlackBerry brand.

Saunders discussed the upcoming, next-generation "BBX" BlackBerry software platform, which will run on RIM smartphones and tablets, as well as details and clarification on the future of BlackBerry for RIM customers, developers and the company itself.

Last month at DevCon, RIM announced and detailed its next generation BlackBerry platform, called BBX. (Read more .)