Gates' Replacement says Microsoft Must Simplify

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday June 19, 2006 @02:32AM 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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Re:Huge Mess For Whoever Takes Over by ednopantz · 2006-06-19 04:55 · Score: 1, Troll

>6) Linux continues to step by step become the de facto choice for computing companies to base their hardware on

Which explains the ease of finding Linux drivers and the near impossiblity of finding them for Windows.

Oh, wait, on this planet things are the other way around.