Comments on: The Ozzie Memo: Software is Dead, Long Live the Web

By: 131 « commandN

131 « commandN — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:45:04 +0000

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By: Mesh Collaboration | Microsoft is cool – if you are a teenager (or a home user)!

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:14:31 +0000

[...] The ‘Software + Services’ marketing line really has started to mean something, and the latest Ray Ozzie internal memo from a month or so back (leaked as usual) brings a real clarity to the whole topic in my humble [...]

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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:47:19 +0000

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Emerging trends? Nope - its been a long time coming at Liako.Biz — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:05:50 +0000

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Noticias » Blog Archive » Microsoft se convierte a la red social — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:50:53 +0000

[...] audio y vídeo, consolas y más”. Sí. Muchos lo han dicho antes. Cierto. Pero estas son las palabras de Ray Ozzie, el responsable de la nueva estrategia de Microsoft. Su mensaje: todo a la web, también los [...]

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Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition - Jon Galloway — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:15:00 +0000

[...] The Ozzie Memo: Software is Dead, Long Live the Web "In a remarkable strategy memo to employees (embedded below), Ozzie essentially shifts Microsoft’s mission from one of creating software for the PC and stand-alone servers to creating an interconnecting mesh between devices and people. He is not abandoning Windows or Office, but he is saying that the value of Microsoft’s software will increasingly depend less on what it can do on its own than what it can do with others." [...]

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Sliverlight + Mesh = Silvermesh? « Tom Altman’s Wedia Conversation — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:12:16 +0000

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Microsoft Deal with FAST is Closed « AdViking — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:52:47 +0000

[...] 2008 In an interesting week when Microsoft is pushing ahead with the Yahoo attempt, the Ray Ozzie thumbprint is felt in the cloud, the deal to purchase Fast Search & Transfer (disclosure below) has been [...]

By: Steve Ballmer Made Me Wear a Tie | Learn to Adapt

Steve Ballmer Made Me Wear a Tie | Learn to Adapt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:45:34 +0000

[...] will help us serve the C+C+C from above. Despite Ray Ozzie’s release of Live Mesh and some observations that MS finally sees that software is dead, Steve stressed the continued importance of software. He [...]

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links for 2008-04-24 | hxf148 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:36:37 +0000

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By: Microsoft’s Mesh Revealed—Sync All Apps And All Files To All Devices (As Long As They’re Windows) | crown.MONKEY

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:32:44 +0000

[...] Ozzie understands the need for this shift in focus on the part of Microsoft. In a strategy memo to employees, he writes: To individuals, the concept of “My Computer” will give way to the [...]

By: ross

ross — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:44:41 +0000

why is it that ozzy looks like a certain someone here

http://lonestar...ges/hitler7.jpg

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links for 2008-04-24 at DeStructUred Blog — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:32:02 +0000

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By: Jeff O'Connor

Jeff O'Connor — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:15:00 +0000

@ JJamison:

“If I were a Yahoo shareholder, could spell “the internet,” and I saw this type of leadership from Ozzie, I’d sure wonder why my management team wouldn’t even meet with MSFT to discuss this…”

That’s exactly the problem – Bal(d)mer is running the good ship Microsoft, not Ozzie. Bill was famous for “inventing” Microsoft, Ozzie is famous for inventing Notes and Groove, and Bal(d)mer is famous for throwing a chair across a room and sweating profusely on-camera.

I consider myself a huge Microsoft and Yahoo! cheerleader (the former for their software, the latter for their portal, services, and YUI Library), but *neither* of them currently have “geek cred,” though Jerry is slowly restoring Yahoo’s; Bal(d)mer leaves me totally cold. And for someone who’s hairline has been receding since he turned 18, that’s saying something.

By: Ozziefan

Ozziefan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:57:11 +0000

What i think many people forget is that Microsoft talking about web services for the first time 10 years ago with its Hailstorm paper. Out of Hailstorm and the concept of loosely coupled web services in the sky came the Microsoft’s work on AJAX. Remember folks, MSFT invented AJAX! I think this is a great announcement, as it prooves that they are willing to eat their own children (Windows) to ensure they are relevant in the future. IBM were the opposite..they saw the rich client/PC wave coming and stuck with their monolitic mainframes ways….At least MS has some vision here….The guns of Redmond are slowly turning!

By: Agenda Pusher

Agenda Pusher — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:19:37 +0000

If Techcrunch doesn’t make an effort to change *everything* today into something else tomorrow, they don’t have a job tomorrow. Right now, software must die so they can blog about it and say, “we told you so.” Tomorrow, who knows what it’ll be? Think about that when you read TC. If there is even a hint of opinion in a TC post, an agenda is certainly at hand.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » レイ・オジー戦略メモ「ソフトは死んだ、ウェブ万歳」

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » レイ・オジー戦略メモ「ソフトは死んだ、ウェブ万歳」 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:53:14 +0000

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By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:36:05 +0000

21 is right! I don’t think you are getting the mesh at all. This thing might be the only way for ms to someday transition from desktop heavy apps to web services but it VERY clearly doesn’t rely on software being as dead as this post seems to think it does.

Despite techcrunch’s delusional belief that no one buys desktop Office anymore the average user is going to still be using it 5 years from now *especially* if this thing takes off. Data is accessed through the cloud and you can use apps over it but they are desktop apps not web based services! They are treading the line rather than busting over it but that probably makes sense. The last survey I saw made it clear that most people don’t care or understand google docs and its like and so far, gears, which could help out, is as lame as MS online office is. (Remember how gears + docs was going to REALLY, this time for sure, mean the end of Office? Why was that anyway if the cloud is really where it’s at?) The most interesting idea here is the change in software licensing from machine based to “mesh” based. Which you appear, not surprisingly, to pass over entirely since they are still talking about….software.

By: Loproman

Loproman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:00:52 +0000

That sucks that software is dead. How this doesn’t kill the web (which runs on software) at the same time is remarkable.

By: Microsoft maniobra hacia la red con Live Mesh « nibarcomblog

Microsoft maniobra hacia la red con Live Mesh « nibarcomblog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:55:05 +0000

[...] Ozzie, jefe de tecnología de Microsoft, explica en un informe interno la estrategia como una oportunidad para fortalecer la posición de su empresa en el entorno de las [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:41:01 +0000

“It is our mission in this new era to create compelling, seamless experiences that combine the power of the internet, with the magic of software, across a world of devices”.
-Ray Ozzie

… the verbatim paragraph immediately following the first paragraph of the his memo quoted above, immediately preceding the ‘Guiding Principles’, and somehow omitted here

I’m a TechCrunch fan, but this omitted content sandwiched directly between the quoted content seems a glaring mismatch with the unfortunate title of this post.

Software is dead? I thought he said it was magic. And that it was their mission to use it to create compelling experiences on both the web AND in a myriad of devices.

By: Broofa

Broofa — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:25:59 +0000

Sadly, Ozzie’s Guiding Principles leave out the most important one:

“If People Don’t Trust You, They’ll Ignore You”

M$FT’s legacy of jerking developers, companies, and customers around for the last 25 years is going to be a real impediment to playing in the open/social software world.

By: Keith Watanabe.net 2.0| Ray Ozzie Says Software Is Dead and the Web Is Alive; What About My Paycheck???

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:06:59 +0000

Ray Ozzie Says Software Is Dead and the Web Is Alive; What About My Paycheck???…

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By: JerkCrunch

JerkCrunch — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:51:17 +0000

Too little too late Mr Ozzie

M$ has been strangling and choking the web for years until they got in a position to abuse it with a monopolistic strategy?

Fuck no, we don’t want M$ touching our web!

It is like giving a pedophile free pass to a kindergarten.

Keep M$ out of the web!!!