Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft

denobug writes "Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, is stepping down. He is to remain with Microsoft until he retires, focusing his efforts 'in the broader area of entertainment where Microsoft has many ongoing investments,' based on a memo from Steve Ballmer. Also according to Steve's memo, the role of CSA was unique and it will not be filled."

Comments

I'm Ray Ozzie,

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Bailing out from this exploding gas bag, before she burns down to the bare frame.

Re:I'm Ray Ozzie,

[Shikaku]

I thought 3 digit UIDs were a myth....

D: It is a miracle.

Re:I'm Ray Ozzie,

[houghi]

I ran a script to do a calculation and there are about 10 1 digit UIDs and around 90 2 digit UIDs.

Re:I'm Ray Ozzie,

[gringer]

Its up to ten million and it hasn't found any more one digit UIDs, just the first ten.

Have you checked to make sure that there aren't any in the vast space between two whole numbers? That sounds like it could be quite a complicated exercise.

Re:I'm Ray Ozzie,

[MichaelSmith]

Its up to ten million and it hasn't found any more one digit UIDs, just the first ten.

Have you checked to make sure that there aren't any in the vast space between two whole numbers? That sounds like it could be quite a complicated exercise.

Hey you are right. I found more low numbers right after 4294967296.

Re:End of Azure

[MrEricSir]

That's ridiculous. We all know that Ballmer would be perfectly happy to dance around a giant empty building while clapping and shouting "Developers, developers, developers, developers."

He stated the reason why

[wandazulu]

He's stepping down to spend more time with his baby, Lotus Notes.

Re:Rah-rah Cloud

[Daniel Phillips]

Indeed, Ray Ozzie did play a pivotal role in helping keep Microsoft's leaders heads in the cloud.

Re:MS could have owned the cloud

[bkaul01]

Microsoft never did understand Lotus Notes.

Neither did any of the users who were forced to try to use it.

Re:End of Azure

[billcopc]

Delphi.

Death metal

[goombah99]

I loved ozzie's music. He should bite the head off balmer like a bat.

Re:Its not as funny as you think

[billcopc]

You're right, we should reap the dead UIDs and auction them off for great justice.

Re:End of Azure

[johnhp]

God brought .NET to Bill Gates in a dream, as an apology to him and the world for ever letting MFC exist.

Re:Ray's Real Job

[jjohn]

"God! is there nothing about Microsoft that is not some sad, hollow sham?"

I don't know. Notepad and freecell are pretty solid.

Re:End of Azure

[syousef]

I think its more like having a single technical lead in a powerful position is a bad thing for management because they keep asking hard questions. So lets split the role into smaller project based positions, leaving the strategy to management and marketing.

I think it would be cheaper and more effective to leave the strategy to Paul the Octopus. He's probably nicer too.