Microsoft’s Top Software Architect, a Cloud Computing Advocate, Quits

[DorsetBoy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/technology/19soft.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's resident software visionary, plans to leave the company.

In a note sent to Microsoft employees on Monday, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, disclosed that Mr. Ozzie would relinquish his role as the company's chief software architect, spend some time handing his work over to other people and then exit the company altogether. Mr. Ozzie drove much of Microsoft's move into cloud computing, including building the plan for the Azure service that lets corporations run business software in Microsoft's data centers.

"Since being at Microsoft, both through inspiration and impact he's been instrumental in our transition toward a software world now centered on services," Mr. Ballmer wrote about Mr. Ozzie, 54.

Heralded as one of the world's great programmers, Mr. Ozzie, before working for Microsoft, steered the creation of Lotus Notes, a popular e-mail and collaborative workspace software package. Then, during the dot-com boom, he started Groove Networks, another collaboration software maker, that swapped data using more modern techniques...... (more)

[Steve]

I wonder where he's going?

[Glenn]

To the Mountain View Chocolate Factory (Google), would be my guess.

[Gary]

To the Mountain View Chocolate Factory (Google), would be my guess.

I can see the Google OS becoming very dominant in the next few years so it would not surprise me, although he could be going elsewhere of course, Microsoft are under more pressure than ever, I do not cherish the idea of an even more dominant Google I must admit.

[DorsetBoy]

Some more interesting articles on the same story and some that are none to complimentary about the guy......

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1790792/ray-ozzie-walks-microsoft


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/65645082-db10-11df-a870-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss


http://blogs.computerworld.com/17193/ray_ozzie_to_quit_microsoft?af     some it seems are hoping he will give up altogether.

[Gary]

Some more interesting articles on the same story and some that are none to complimentary about the guy......

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1790792/ray-ozzie-walks-microsoft


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/65645082-db10-11df-a870-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss


http://blogs.computerworld.com/17193/ray_ozzie_to_quit_microsoft?af     some it seems are hoping he will give up altogether.

Interesting links Dorset, saying that Steve Ballmer is not exactly a delight to behold, its odd they call him a visionary, is that a polite way of saying maybe with his head in the cloud (no pun intended of course) to much 

[DorsetBoy]

Ray Ozzie's exit from the Vole was unexpected and was announced in an email sent by the shy and soft-spoken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

[Gary]

I have visions of Steve Ballmer that would make hell freeze over now

[pctech]

I don't think Jobs is too nice to deal with either.

I wonder if Ray Ozzie will go back to the Lotus division at IBM.