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Gates' Replacement says Microsoft Must Simplify

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the planning-the-future dept.

Javaman59 writes "This article in The Australian newspaper describes the background and the agenda of Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates' replacement as chief architect at Microsoft. The creator of Lotus Notes, he's a high-calibre technologist. From the article: 'Ray's a programmer's programmer .. He's much closer to an uber-engineer, whereas Bill hasn't been a programmer for a number of years.' Ozzie is also driving Microsoft to simplify its software: 'Complexity kills .. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.' He's not the only brilliant programmer in the world, but he does have Microsoft's resources behind him."

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  1. Re:He is not a programmer's programmer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, if the guy who brought the world Lotus Notes thinks Microsoft need to simplify their software, things are worse than - no, correction - almost exactly as bad as I thought.

  2. Technologist! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny
    The creator of Lotus Notus, he's a high calibre technologist.
    Not only is he a technologist, he's a great scientician and an award-winning engineeringer. His unfailicating leaderostimation and efficientistic directionating of Microsoft's profusical resources will undoubtingly work for the betterificationating of all humanitism.
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  3. Re:From the horse's... uh... well... by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 5, Funny

    "one of the top five programmers in the universe"

    I know where the other 4 are, they are all in Russia sending me spam and running porn sites.

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  4. Re:Lotus Notes by Electrum · · Score: 5, Funny

    If anything, the reason I think people hate it so much is precisely because it allows just any wanker to come in and crap out a solution without thinking about it.

    You just described Visual Basic.