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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. creator of lotus notus? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nice rhyme, but wasn't the program called, you know, lotus NOTES?

    bah, what do i expect, it's /.

  2. Funny by Anthracks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I went to pre-school with Ray Ozzie's son; I have some photos of us hanging out on the playground. Too bad we didn't stay in touch :)

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  3. Re:He is not a programmer's programmer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This is the guy that brought us Lotus Notes

    Boy, would I ever like to meet him...

    ... in a dark alley.

  4. Hey Editurs! by xtracto · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, who is this guy and what is this program Lotus Notus he wrote?, why is it so important?

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