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This week in pictures: Ray Ozzie re-emerges with new startup

Posted January 6, 2012 - 5:35 pm

Also: Yahoo taps PayPal President Thompson as CEO, IE6 usage slides below 1 percent, and much, much more.
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Software whiz Ray Ozzie re-emerges with startup Cocomo

Posted January 5, 2012 - 3:54 pm

Lotus Notes creator and former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is coming back with a startup named Cocomo that seems to be focused on mobile communication.
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Ballmer fires Microsoft head of servers, clouds; leaves his own head alone

Posted January 10, 2011 - 6:43 pm

Microsoft CEO announced Bob Muglia will leave this summer so Ballmer can bring in fresh blood. It may not be Muglia's blood that's the problem.
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Bill Gates will return to save Microsoft

Posted November 16, 2010 - 5:24 pm

Now is the time, and will be the time, for Bill Gates to return full time to the company he built and return it to the top of the tech food chain.
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Ozzie to Microsoft: Move to the cloud or die

Posted November 16, 2010 - 5:08 pm

Departing Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie is leaving behind a communique expanding on his 2005 call for Microsoft to further eschew the PC-centric world and push further into cloud computing or slowly wither away.
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Bill Gates' successor predicts death of PC

Posted October 26, 2010 - 4:58 pm

In a farewell blog, Ray Ozzie reiterates his efforts to push Microsoft toward mobile computing and the cloud, but acknowledges Apple and Google did both faster and better.
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Analyst downgrades, Ozzie critique push down Microsoft shares

Posted October 25, 2010 - 7:06 pm

Shares of Microsoft slipped Monday on downgrades by two analysts and critical comments by outgoing chief software architect regarding the company's strategy.
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Ray Ozzie's (incredibly long) departing memo a warning to Microsoft

Posted October 25, 2010 - 1:56 pm

Outgoing chief software architect Ray Ozzie posts a long memo warning Microsoft that, despite much progress and many successes during his five years in Redmond, the company runs the risk of lagging behind in a "post-PC world."
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Is Ozzie's Exit Good or Bad for Microsoft in Cloud Race?

Posted October 20, 2010 - 12:06 pm

Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie's plan to retire, announced yesterday in a memo by CEO Steve Ballmer, marks the end of a five year tenure during which Ozzie helped steer the company to a cloud computing model and helped develop Windows Azure.
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Does it really matter that Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft?

Posted October 19, 2010 - 2:51 pm

So how has Monday's news that Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie is leaving the company being interpreted by industry observers?
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Ray Ozzie to leave Microsoft

Posted October 18, 2010 - 8:15 pm

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect and the executive responsible for pushing the company into the cloud, plans to step down, Microsoft said on Monday.
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Microsoft’s Ozzie mum on tablet plans

Posted June 3, 2010 - 2:16 pm

At an event honoring PLATO, Microsoft exec declines to respond to comments made by Steve Jobs or to discuss the software giant's tablet strategy
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Microsoft's Ozzie airs cloud views, backs Windows-based netbooks

Posted June 5, 2009 - 12:41 pm

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, detailed Microsoft's embrace of cloud computing Thursday and also endorsed the concept of netbooks -- provided they run Intel x86 processors and Windows.
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Ozzie: E-mail, collaboration will drive move to cloud

Posted May 20, 2009 - 2:51 pm

Moving e-mail and collaboration applications to the cloud will drive the first wave of adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, which is still in its nascent phase, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Wednesday.
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Time has been on my side, Microsoft's Ozzie says

Posted May 2, 2009 - 8:44 pm

Microsoft's chief software architect discussed the roots of his interest in collaborative software.
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Ray Ozzie steers Microsoft into the cloud

Posted October 28, 2008 - 2:28 pm

In this interview following Monday's keynote speech at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Ray Ozzie discusses Azure, cloud computing and the future of the Windows OS.
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Ray Ozzie is key to Microsoft's success against Google

Posted June 20, 2008 - 5:03 pm

As heir apparent to Bill Gates, Ray Ozzie is under an enormous amount of pressure to rise to the occasion. How he performs as chief software architect once Gates leaves the fold is key to Microsoft's ability to take the same dominance it enjoyed in the PC industry for the past 20-some years to the world of Internet advertising and hosted services.
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