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- So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?
- One noticeable no-show at this week's Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is Live Mesh. Live Mesh, Microsoft's synchronization service that is the pet project of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, was one of the main attractions at previous Microsoft developers' conferences. I asked Ozzie for an update on it this...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Conference, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds
- Microsoft's way of accomplishing missionI'm not ever going to say "Mission Accomplished".Another VP of cloud at the PDC saying "I'm not going to give a timeframe".I could go and gather more quotes but am too busy to search. All I've got to say is looking good Microsoft (to crash and...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds
- In a lengthy interview, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talked about clouds, lessons Microsoft learned from the recent Sidekick outage as well as why people are wrong to count Microsoft out of the smartphone race. When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Microsoft, cloud, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-11-18
- Ray Ozzie's view of the Web Office
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- Tags: Smart phones, Web, iPhone Ringtone, Apple iPhone, MKV, Ray Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2009-11-14
- 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
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