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  • Look who's back: Ray Ozzie, Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect

    Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is back with a stealth communications startup, Cocomo.

    Blog posts | January 4, 2012 6:29pm PST

  • Microsoft's new Windows 8 contracts: The debut of the developer clipboard

    Microsoft has introduced a new developer concept known as "Contracts" with Windows 8. Think of it as a universal clipboard for apps and services that ties back to Internet Explorer 10.

    Blog posts | September 19, 2011 12:20pm PDT

  • Microsoft CRM 2011: Enterprise software, meet consumer expectations

    As much as some may wish for Microsoft to abandon the consumer market and refocus on its enterprise business, that's not going to happen. Instead, what is increasingly happening is...

    Blog posts | February 4, 2011 8:49am PST

  • 'Complexity kills': Can Microsoft, and all of IT, simplify?

    Ray Ozzie's riff on the post-PC world and how complexity kills highlight a technology and management issue for Microsoft---as well as enterprise IT.

    Blog posts | October 25, 2010 7:04am PDT

  • Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect on the 'post-PC world'

    Ray Ozzie may be a lame duck at this point, as he will soon be leaving his Chief Software Architect post at Microsoft. But that hasn't stopped him from publishing an updated assessment of...

    Blog posts | October 25, 2010 5:56am PDT

  • Does Microsoft really need a chief software architect?

    Ray Ozzie announced yesterday that he plans to step down as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, after five years at the company. The question for Microsoft now is not "Can Ozzie be replaced?"...

    Blog posts | October 19, 2010 5:27am PDT

  • Ray Ozzie hangs up his Chief Software Architect hat

    Just days after he started blogging again, Ray Ozzie has announced plans to retire from Microsoft. Ozzie is stepping down as Chief Software Architect, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced in...

    Blog posts | October 18, 2010 1:54pm PDT

  • Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ozzie starts blogging (again)

    For being a social-media fan, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie hasn't been big on sharing publicly via blogging or Twitter. But on October 14, after a four-year hiatus, Ozzie started a...

    Blog posts | October 14, 2010 12:04pm PDT

  • Rebecca Norlander: Microsoft Women Worth Watching

    The final profile in my Microsoft Women Worth Watching series is of someone who is between jobs at the company. Regardless of her (temporarily) jobless status, Rebecca Norlander is definitely...

    Blog posts | May 21, 2010 11:20am PDT

  • Analyst: 'It is game over for Microsoft in consumer'

    What if Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and other leaders at Microsoft are wrong and integrating the consumer and business worlds doesn't really matter? One very influential market watcher,...

    Blog posts | December 11, 2009 5:05am PST

  • Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist

    It's been almost two years since I first got tips about Microsoft "SmartFlow," a product which allegedly was going to be a competitor with Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom post-production software for...

    Blog posts | November 19, 2009 7:28am PST

  • 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...

    Blog posts | November 18, 2009 9:38am PST

  • 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...

    News items | November 18, 2009 5:32am PST

  • New Microsoft social computing lab formed under Ozzie

    Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has launched another new lab, this one focused on social computing. The 82-person Future Social Experiences Labs (FUSE) will be headed by General...

    Blog posts | October 8, 2009 8:36am PDT

  • Five ways Microsoft has changed since Gates left

    It's been a year since Bill Gates left Microsoft in his official capacity. At the time many speculated his departure would spark a significant shift in Redmond. But has that really happened?

    News items | July 9, 2009 7:23am PDT

  • One year after Bill Gates' 'retirement': What's different?

    It was just a year ago (June 27 was the actual date) that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates relinquished his day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft. Has much changed as a result?

    Blog posts | June 29, 2009 5:46am PDT

  • 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...

    Blog posts | June 5, 2009 3:30am PDT

  • Microsoft to launch ThinkWeek 2.0

    Microsoft came close to killing off its "ThinkWeek" process, via which employee-submitted ideas can find their way into the hands of upper management for consideration. But it sounds like Chief...

    Blog posts | June 3, 2009 4:35pm PDT

  • Microsoft's Ozzie defends Microsoft's aggressive online spending

    Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie defended Microsoft's continued heavy investments in the online-systems arena, claiming the flowing trail of red ink from Microsoft's Online Systems...

    Blog posts | May 20, 2009 6:54am PDT

  • 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?...

    Blog posts | February 27, 2009 11:03am PST

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