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

[ozmanjusri]

perhaps you havent seen the shift microsoft has made since WinMo6.

Have you actually used a W7 phone?

Like most new MS UI designs (ribbon anyone?), it's superficially pretty in a banal kind of way, but doesn't actually improve anything. It's change for the sake of appearing different.

The home screen's fine for a few apps, but gets in the way if you add more, and again, the more you use the OS, the more inconsistencies you run into. There's almost no "Wow" moments, and many times when you don't get what you expect - Bing appearing when you wanted to search inside a document, for example.

I'd hesitate to say it was genuinely bad, but uninteresting, definitely. Using it made me even happier about choosing a Galaxy S (Android) for my own phone.