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Transcript: PDC08 Keynote ??? Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

A copy of a current utility billMicrosoft notified testers that it had RTM?d released to manufacturing Fiji on July 17, according to testers who requested anonymity. From the alleged release note:RE: Transcript: PDC08 Keynote ??? Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David ThompsonI?ve suggested to a number of folks...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Amitabh Srivastava, David Thompson, Bob Muglia, Ray Ozzie

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Churchill Club podcast: Microsoft Ray Ozzie talks cloud computing

In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the evolution of cloud computing. Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired Magazine, was the moderator. Here's the report from Sam Diaz on the Ozzie talk. by...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Podcasts, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talks cloud computing at Churchill Club

Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talks cloud computing at Churchill ClubIf Microsoft had any Karma, they'd be out of businessAnd come back with humility and without the sense of entitlement.I attended the event last night, and thoughtRay did a fantastic job. If you are in business you can appreciate what he's...

Tags: Virtualization, Linux Distro, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Ray Ozzie

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talks cloud computing at Churchill Club

I've been a pretty vocal critic of Microsoft in the past, scratching my head in amazement when the company does something wacky like a Jerry Seinfeld-Bill Gates commercial or Windows Vista. But after a Churchill Club dinner in Silicon Valley last night, I think have a better understanding of what's...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Red Dog: Ray Ozzie casts a long shadow

Red Dog: Ray Ozzie casts a long shadowWhat does the authour mean by new sheriff?What does the authour mean by new sheriff?Microsoft was the father of MicroDogNTFascinating SeriesMary Jo,This looks like it is going to be a fascinating series. In many ways, Red Dog will make or break Microsoft's...

Tags: Web browsers, Games, Microsoft Corp., Red Dog, Ray Ozzie

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

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

Can Microsoft innovate? Should we care?

Microsoft's new Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, recently said that Microsoft's reactive culture may be the company's greatest liability as an innovator. But we don't need an innovative Microsoft. Simple competence would be improvement enough. Ozzie's comments in an article by the excellent Steven Levy in...

Tags: Innovation, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-12-07

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

Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure

Ray Ozzie announces Windows AzureVague and empty Geek SpeakThis clip is an example straight out of the children's fable "The Emperor's New Clothes". Full of buzz words, faux made up on the fly tech speak and other techno prestidigitation. Ozzie manages to waste 5 min of my time...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ray Ozzie, Windows Azure

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just 'Hailstorm' revisited?

At the Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, I've heard a few long-time Microsoft watchers wondering aloud whether Microsoft's newly unveiled "Azure" isn't simply Microsoft taking another run at "Hailstorm." I had a chance to ask Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, that very question at the PDC. by Mary...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Hailstorm, Strategy, Management

Blog posts 2008-10-29

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

Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab

You may have heard of Microsoft's Live Labs, Office Labs, adCenter Labs. Get ready to add one more Microsoft incubator that is designed to speed up the delivery of Microsoft-created innovations to market: Startup Labs. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Team, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, Product Development, Team Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 24. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Zurich, Ray Ozzie, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, SQL Server Data Services, Data Centers, Retail, Financial Accounting, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

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

The sum of Microsoft's fears

Here's the problem Ray Ozzie faces, as I see it. It's what I'd tell him if he were sitting across the desk from me. Open source is not your competitor. Fighting a war against open source is like the U.S. fighting a "War Against Terrorism." You're putting...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google

Google has nothing on open source when it comes to potential competitive threats to Microsoft, according to Redmond's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie. Ozzie fielded a number of questions on his role at Microsoft and the company's evolving technology strategies during an appearance at the Sanford Bernstein...

Tags: Google Inc., Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Productivity, Open Source, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-28