“Except for a financial analysts event in July, Microsoft’s incoming chief software architect has been decidedly quite. His last blog post was April Fool’s Day. This morning, Ray Ozzie finally broke his silence. Ozzie answered questions, many of them leading, at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium. There’s a saying about talking much but saying little. While Ozzie shed some light on Microsoft’s services – or software-as-a-service – strategy, he offered more vagaries than specifics. Still, by piecing together the little he said with the much we know about Microsoft, the hour-long Q&A illuminates Microsoft’s services direction.”
You can find the webcast here: http://www.microsoft.com/msft/default.mspx
I did not manage to listen through it all, as it was many words, with little to say. And Ray Ozzie is not exactly what you would call charismatic to begin with….
Apparantly Microsofts Live strategy is just about creating a hybrid model between the desktop and online services. Ray did not say much about how they are going to pull this off.
But it sounds like the old “leverage our desktop monopoly” card played again. Will the strategy work once more?
“Google is the command line of the internet.”
That has to be one of the coolest Internet quotes either.
Additionally, what Microsoft considers to be “platform and services” is pretty well delineated here:
http://www.microsoft.com/college/business_ppsd.mspx
Basically, anything with MSN or Windows Live in the name is a ‘service,’ while the essential components of their operating systems (DirectX, IE, and the various kernels) are their ‘platforms.’
“Except for a financial analysts event in July, Microsoft’s incoming chief software architect has been decidedly quite.
quiet
This so-called “””chief software architect””” and his tens-of-bajillion-dollars” “”company”” STILL can’t produce an OS that doesn’t crash…..
If he were a **house** architect there’s no way I’d buy one of his houses…. 😀
Edited 2007-02-27 23:57
Odd that you say that as I can’t actually remember the last crash I got on XP. It’s a very stable OS whatever it’s other failings.