Archive for the tag 'ozzie'

Jun 28 2008

Goodbye uncle Bill

Published by Stef under business, eng

As Bill Gates finally bows out of Microsoft to pursue his charity interests, BBC looks at some of the hits and misses of the software company he founded.
BBC NEWS | Technology | The hits and misses of Microsoft
Uncle Bill left a Microsoft not having beaten the Free Software movement and fighting to conquer new markets, [...]

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Apr 22 2008

Ozzie talks about FLOSS and FLOSS advocates talk back

Published by Stef under business

Lots of talking about Microsoft lately.’  As I expected, Ray Ozzie’s public appearances are increasing with declarations of love for the magic word interoperability and with a new, more open, attitude.’  I believe it’s true that “Microsoft fundamentally, as a whole, has changed dramatically as a result of open source,” as Ozzie said.
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Mar 10 2008

Microsoft is changing focus, will it change attitude?

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I’ve placed a bet that Microsoft will change radically its business model when Gates will leave his chair to Ray Ozzie, so I was trying to get a clue from Ozzie’s speech at the MIX last week. I wasn’t too impressed by his keynote, though, it was too much in the old known ‘corporate [...]

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Nov 28 2007

Open Source? Microsoft’s split personality

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I’m not sure that Bill Hilf’s declarations about Microsoft’s Open Source strategy give a complete picture of the corporate strategy in the near future to compete in a sector that radically changed since Windows came to light in the ’90s. I think that Microsoft is being disrupted and will have to split and go [...]

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