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- Red Dog: Ray Ozzie casts a long shadow
- Why was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie so focused on the Live Mesh sync product, but seemingly less so on the building blocks that were key to powering Microsoft's cloud platform? That's one of the many questions I had when I started researching this week's Red Dog series of...
- Tags: Team, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Ray, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Microsoft 'Red Dog': A pink poodle in disguise?
- I think the Wired December cover story on Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie captured well Ozzie's challenges in winning over the "old guard" inside Microsoft, while pushing ahead with his new agenda. But the part which most intrigued this Microsoft codename watcher was the bit about from where the...
- Tags: Wired Inc., Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Wired Magazine, E-mail Providers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Gallery: Microsoft takes wraps off Windows Azure
- At Microsoft's PDC 2008 conference, the company's chief software architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Windows Azure which is an operating system that lets developers write programs for Microsoft's data centers instead of individual pieces of software for business servers. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Smith, Cloud, windows, PDC08, Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, David Thompson
- Image galleries 2008-10-29
- A report card: Microsoft's Ozzie grades his three years of 'disruption'
- This week at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference PDC, I had my first chance to interview Chief Software Architect Ozzie since he joined Microsoft. I asked him to rate the extent to which Microsoft has delivered on the plan he outlined three years ago today in his infamous memo entitled "The...
- Tags: Card, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Change Management, Microsoft Office, Collaboration, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure
- At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the company's new cloud computing operating system, called Windows Azure. The new OS is a framework that allows you to scale from 10 users to 10 million users without additional coding. Ozzie also...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Windows Azure, Microsoft
- Videos 2008-10-28
- Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure [Video]
- At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the company's new cloud computing operating system, called Windows Azure. The new OS is a framework that allows you to scale from 10 users to 10 million users without additional coding. Ozzie also...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Video, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?
- In a new video interview posted to Microsoft's Channel 9 Web site on June 23, Chairman Bill Gates adds a third group of folks to the list of those who will be filling his shoes after he leaves Microsoft as a full-time employee this month. Gates told Channel 9's Charles...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., DeWitt, Flake, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Web Site Development, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Will Mesh take the Web from open source?
- The launch of Microsoft's Live Mesh has a lot of people asking what this means for key competitors like Google or Adobe. But what does it mean for open source? After all: Use of Live Mesh is tied to a Windows ID. A...
- Tags: Web, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Ozzie signals Microsoft's surrender to the cloud
- Publicly, Microsoft talks up the merits of its 'software-plus-services' strategy. In my view the message is bunkum, even though it reflects the reality of Microsoft's business today: mostly software, with a few early-stage service offerings. But Microsoft has its message back-to-front. Until Microsoft reverses the software-plus-services mantra and puts services...
- Tags: Software, Desktop, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Synchronization, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Servers, Management, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Untangling the Microsoft mesh
- "Mesh" was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's word of the day last week at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference. Ozzie waxed prolific on "social mesh," "device mesh," "seamless mesh" and more. But what are the technological underpinnings that will allow users and developers to bring everything together...
- Tags: WinFS, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Sync Famework, Microsoft Horizon, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Ray Ozzie bringing 'syncromesh' to the Web
- Guest post: Dan Farber, Between the Lines alumnus and founding editor-in-chief of ZDNet, is editor-in-chief of CNET News.com. Ray Ozzie has a history of trying to break through software and usability barriers. With Lotus Notes, he and his team spent years creating the underlying client/server collaboration technology to...
- Tags: Web, Device, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Mesh, FeedSynch, Synchronization, Channel Management, Groupware, Servers, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Microsoft Mix '08 keynote kick-off: The Cliff Notes version
- Microsoft is making available as of March 5 the first beta for developers of Internet Explorer IE 8, as well as the first beta release of Silverlight 2.0. IE 8 includes a number of new features, including WebSlices, Activities, a new phishing filter and improved standards support....
- Tags: Data Service, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SQL Server, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2, Web Browsers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Ray Ozzie's Simple Sharing Extensions get a new lease on life
- In late 2005, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was championing a new technology called RSS Simple Sharing Extensions SSE. Since then, there have been almost no public updates from Ozzie or anyone else at Microsoft on what was happening with SSE. Until this week, that is....
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Specification, Microsoft Corp., RSS, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Where in the world is Ray Ozzie?
- Ray Ozzie is Microsoft's chief software architect--that's Bill Gates' old job. He is charged with building a bidirectional bridge between Microsoft's lucrative rich-client past and its cloud-computing future. Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in March of 2005, is keeping a low profile lately. The last...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Live, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
- A new Microsoft software plus service: Silverlight Streaming
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Microsofts latest example of software plus service (S+S) -- a new video streaming offering called Silverlight Streaming -- during his opening keynote at Microsofts Mix 07 conference on April 30. Silverlight Streaming is in alpha. It is a free...
- Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Visual Studio Orcas, Silverlight (wpf/e), MIX07, Expression Studio, Development tools
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Ray Ozzie: Silverlight + .NET and 'experience first' software
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie opened the MIX 2007 conference announcing that .NET technology is being paired up with Silverlight, Microsofts cross-platform multi-browser plug-in for developing media rich interactive Web applications and a competitor to Adobes Apollo. "AJAX development has limitations and there is a better language than Javascript...
- Tags: Microsoft, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Reading the Ray Ozzie tea leaves
- Microsoft silent Chief Software Architect CSA has spoken. But he didnt say much in his first public appearance in ages. On February 27, Microsoft CSA Ray Ozzie answered questions -- in a refreshingly tech-jargon-free way -- from Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund for an hour as part of the...
- Tags: Windows Live, Office Live, Corporate strategy, Xbox Live
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff berates Microsoft in internal email
- Today Microsoft re-announced their on-demand CRM solution, Benioff: "The fact is that Microsoft is being out hustled by everyone." Microsoft Dynamics CRM - including a new software-as-a-service offering called Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live. According to salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, once again Redmond is reacting to the success of...
- Tags: software, Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-11
- The Winds of Change Are Blowing
- Microsoft made the huge announcement today that Bill Gates will be stepping down as Chief Software Architect and will be replaced by Ray Ozzie. As Richard McManus noted, Ray Ozzie is notorious in his support for the web and this transition shows that the old guard at Microsoft knows...
- Tags: software
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
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