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Microsoft ‘Red Dog’: A pink poodle in disguise?
All about Microsoft —
... Wired Magazine’s December cover story on Microsoft Chief Sofware Architect Ray Ozzie is now online. I thought it captured well Ozzie’s challenges in winning over the “old guard” inside Microsoft, while pushing ahead with his new agenda. But the part which most intrigued this Microsoft codename watcher was the bit about from where the codename “Red Dog” emerged. One of my readers postulated that ...
The Confusion of Microsoft Live and its Sync Solutions
SolSie.com —
... "This philosophy of independent innovation—really making progress before you pursue serious integration, is something Ray pushed very strongly," as stated in the recent Wired article entitled Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode. ...
Ray Ozzie on Cloud Strategy and Washington Vs. Massachusetts: Takeaways from Tech Alliance
Xconomy —
... the latter showed up in Seattle in 2005 (when his startup Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft) and gave a three-hour lecture on collaborative software in Lazowska’s class on the history of computing. I’m not going to do justice to Ozzie’s background here—he’s the main creator of Lotus Notes, among other things, and was a developer at Data General, where Craig Mundie also worked—but let’s just say I’ve long been fascinated by his story of discovering the PLATO mainframe at the University of Illinois in Urbana. ...
