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

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You're not locked into anything Apple. You bought one Apple device, what application do you use to put music on it? Does it start with an 'i' ? But you're not locked into anything Apple. And since you don't own a Mac, I'll have to assume you're running the Windows version, too - you know, the one everyone agrees is a piece of crap. But you can't change, even though you're not locked into anything Apple. You can't just connect the iPod to a computer, treat it as a mass storage device and drag MP3s on it (or heavens forbid, drag MP3s OFF it). But you're not locked into anything Apple. You're not locked into anything Apple, and you're not drinking the koolaid. 1+1 is still 3.