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Ray Ozzie's Departing Memo a Warning To Microsoft

Posted by Soulskill on from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-bsods dept.

itwbennett writes "In a parting memo to Microsoft, Ray Ozzie urges Microsoft to 'really, truly, seriously start thinking beyond the PC,' writes blogger Chris Nurney. Nurney suspects that 'Ozzie has been making these points internally for some time,' and that the memo 'could be his way of putting it in the public record.' Some of the memo's juicy bits: 'It's important that all of us do precisely what our competitors and customers will ultimately do: close our eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post-PC world might actually look like, if it were to ever truly occur. ... Today's PCs, phones & pads are just the very beginning; we'll see decades to come of incredible innovation from which will emerge all sorts of "connected companions" that we'll wear, we'll carry, we'll use on our desks & walls and the environment all around us.'"

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  1. Re:MS is doing that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Windows Phone 7 : Too Late to the party ...

  2. New area to dominate by SnarfQuest · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In flight chair ballistics

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  3. Re:MS is doing that by h4rr4r · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Name any of that "Interesting Innovation".

    Would not happen to be no multitasking or no copy-paste would it?

  4. Re:MS is doing that by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sure Windows phone 7 will at the very least do as well as the kin.

  5. Re:MS is doing that by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The main reason that PhoneOS doesn't completely suck as a non-n00b platform is the fact that it is just Darwin underneath. If it wasn't for this fact, it's own myopic limitations would be unbearable. People like to whine about how Microsoft is myopic but Apple really isn't any better. They just have the best shills right now.

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