Ray Ozzie to Change the Face of Microsoft?

[WhiteZero]

"The October issue of Wired magazine takes a look at Ray Ozzie's work with Microsoft. To hear the article describe it, he's rebuilding the company from the ground up. A 70,000-employee company is quietly changing its ways by thinking of software as deliverable services that perhaps could be rented on a monthly subscription basis."

From the article: "There are, of course, two major reasons for Ozzie's ascendancy at Microsoft: Gates and Ballmer. Ozzie is one of the few technologists anywhere whom they respect; they'd been trying for years to get him to join the company. Now he's carrying their hopes for the future, and it's a heavy load. Ozzie needs to move Microsoft from selling software in a box to selling lightning-fast, powerful online applications ranging from gaming to spreadsheets. The risks are enormous. The mission is to radically alter the way the company sells its most profitable software and to pursue the great unknown of so-called Web services - trading an old cash cow for an as-yet-to-be-determined cash cow. No, Microsoft doesn't think its customers will stop using PCs with hard drives and work entirely online, but the desktop era is drawing to a close, and that promises to force some painful trade-offs."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/microsoft.html

 

[bryanf445]

Neato. A rebuild from ground up? That will take time of course, Im excited to hear more about this

 

[JNightshade]

Interesting.

 

[[Dragoon]]

Yeah, because they're obviously doing something wrong, what with the billions of dollars they make and the complete domination of several VERY lucrative markets.

 

[Man|-|unter]

by selling games and spreadsheets can he change the face of Microsoft? eh....? I don't think so.

 

[JellyWorld]

Yeah, because they're obviously doing something wrong, what with the billions of dollars they make and the complete domination of several VERY lucrative markets.

You don't wait until you lose those billions before you start to take action. They're worried the same thing might happen to them that happened to IBM.

 

[hungryduck]

interesting, microsoft has needed this for awhile.....

 

[CookieCuttah]

Pay each month services? I think Microsoft is going to be gone from the international market soon with a policy like that.

 

[tehsolace]

"but the desktop era is drawing to a close" ?

 

[CyberPitz]

"but the desktop era is drawing to a close" ?

I'm not sure about that one myself..

 

[Xune]

I have no intention of renting my OS or any of the software I use. Perhaps now is the time to get serious about Linux.

 

[CyberPitz]

I have no intention of renting my OS or any of the software I use. Perhaps now is the time to get serious about Linux.

Quite possible..when they start to actually make workable anti-piracy precautions...either spend 100-200 bucks for an OS...or...Linux or Mac

 

[Death.Trap]

Heh, no thanks MS...I'm pretty happy with my desktop.

 

[evil^milk]

Heh, no thanks MS...I'm pretty happy with my desktop.

No, you aren't.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

I like my OS thank-you-very-much.

 

[Naudian]

Booo to any kind of sub-f*cking-scription whatsoever!

 

[Raziaar]

Microsoft is going to become even more evil.

 

[Death.Trap]

No, you aren't.

Haha <3