Ray Ozzie's Departing Memo a Warning To Microsoft

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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Re:MS is doing that

[LWATCDR]

Actually they failed to produce a any good aircraft after the P-40. Even the P-40 was looked down on as an also ran. I feel rather unfairly. I was mainly speaking of the Engine division which built several of the best piston aircraft engines in history.
But they failed to invest in jets until it was too late. They believed that piston engines would always be more fuel efficient and would always be the better choice for long range aircraft.
They where wrong and lost the market. Pratt and Whitney on the other had invested early and built Rolls Royce jet engines after the war and put a lot of effort into them.

Re:MS is doing that

[losfromla]

shill, as per description earlier http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1838584&cid=34018664

Big Talker, where'd you go? Answer this:

[Anonymous Coward]

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1836934&cid=34017138 See that & my subject-line... it's great making a name calling big talking b.s. artist like you have to "eat his words" as I did @ that URL, and you RAN!

APK

P.S.=> Now, why did you run away from that, eh big talker? You opened your mouth & called ME a "shill"?? Well, now I am watching you run like the BEYOTCH that you are, unable to backup your bullshit!

Your b.s., to which both the folks (CIO & CTO live in a video from youtube I put up as my evidence there no less) @ LSE even said that InfoLect was their "Trade Data Dissemination System"!

New NEWS 4U too: That's the same thing as MDDS @ NASDAQ is (mdds = market data dissemination system), except that NASDAQ does BOOKING OF TRADES TOO (not just reads/reports), & NASDAQ kept it up & running 24x7 for YEARS now via Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 failover clustering...

LSE by way of comparison? Could not!

Bottom-line here? Well - that all proved my point that the TEAMS who artchitect, code, and maintain large "Enterprise Class" systems matter on projects of this scale as I initially stated they do, & I ought to know... first hand no less!

Hilariously? Heh - You actually also tried to "condescend to me", & I've WRITTEN or CO-WRITTEN 25 of those types of systems in my professional experience since 1994 no less... you made me LAUGH! Best part is I can crap all over you now for your name calling and know what I put up vs. your b.s. is undeniably correct! apk

Re:MS is doing that

[pgmrdlm]

Put your tin foil hat back on. Your starting to capture to many rays from outer space.