Tag: ray_ozzie

  • Ballmer going soon too?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see Bill Gates has decided to take early retirement – I hope he has a decent pension plan in place 😉 Seriously though, this has to be good news for Microsoft. Ray Ozzie who has been named as his successor (along with Craig Mundie), is someone who has a very good name in the…

  • Microsoft becoming more open?

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    Microsoft made two major announcements overnight – the first is an announcement by Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie that Microsoft are extending RSS under a Creative Commons licence, and calling the extended RSS, Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE. Russell Beattie likes it: Adding in SSE namespace could then in theory allow *any* data contained in an…

  • Microsoft 2.0? Yawn.

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    The online world is buzzing with the news of Microsoft’s conversion to Web 2.0! Tim O’Reilly is quite positive about it: Overall, leaves me with a lot of optimism that Microsoft is fully engaged with the right problems, and we’ll be hearing a lot more from them. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch said: After what I…