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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now that Gates is going and his role is being filled by Craig Mundie and Ray Ozzie, the company's subsequent change in direction may best be marked by a renaming of the flagship product formerly known as Longhorn, latterly as Vista, and born of an...
[June 23, 2006, 18:45]
P2P and Akamai tech combine to expand Web
News The Net is broken, fundamentally broken at this point," said Ray Ozzie, chief executive of Groove Networks and the creator of Lotus Notes, citing barriers such as firewalls and scarce Net address availability.
[February 15, 2001, 9:31]
Ozzie shines light on Microsoft's Cloud services
News Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie on Thursday provided a fresh take on the technical components at the heart of its online services push. Speaking at the software company's Financial Analysts Day, Ozzie described in detail the work he...
[July 27, 2007, 17:21]
Ozzie's peer-to-peer to hit corporate networks
News A product expected to bring Napster-style file-sharing to the world of business has been announced by secretive Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes. Since resigning from IBM three years ago, Ozzie had declined to give out information about his new...
[October 24, 2000, 16:03]
Microsoft's Ozzie touts cloud-computing potential
News Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie is a big believer in the cloud, but he knows that large businesses don't yet share his confidence. Enterprises will not really trust the cloud until they get some experience with it," Ozzie said...
[May 21, 2009, 11:35]
Web services get into the Groove
News Founded by collaboration software guru and Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie, Groove Networks sells software that helps create peer-to-peer networks -- a way of linking computers together without the need of servers -- to share data or work on...
[February 4, 2003, 14:24]
Collaboration takes centre stage for Office 12
News The Redmond, Washington, software giant has gotten some help in that effort from Groove Networks, the Ray Ozzie-led company that Microsoft acquired earlier this year, strategy executive Bill Hilf said at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San...
[May 17, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft's Tellme deal may boost Live efforts
News It's been more than 15 months since Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie touted a "Live" services push, but many company watchers are still waiting to hear a clearer strategy for how Microsoft plans to compete with advertising-funded rivals such as Google and...
[March 22, 2007, 9:08]
Microsoft planning Google storage service rival
News Details of the project emerged during a Fortune magazine interview with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief technology officer. Microsoft is developing an online storage service, codenamed Live Drive, that could compete with Google's Gdrive project.
[April 21, 2006, 13:35]
Groove swings $51m from Microsoft
News The software giant's $51m investment gives it a minority stake in Groove, a company founded in 1997 by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie. Microsoft on Wednesday said it has invested $51m in Groove Networks, taking another step toward solidifying its...
[October 10, 2001, 15:03]
Workers on the move can get into new Groove
News When the company was founded in 1997 by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie, its peer-to-peer desktop software was billed primarily as a stand-alone collaboration application targeted at businesses. Groove Networks next week is expected to deliver the...
[July 8, 2004, 17:05]
Microsoft sets out latest tools for web developers
News The web is at the centre of everything Microsoft is doing," said Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect. Microsoft has this week used its MIX08 event in Las Vegas to announce beta releases of web tools including Internet Explorer 8...
[March 7, 2008, 15:45]
Microsoft reacts to the Google menace
News Ballmer has also tasked chief technology officer Ray Ozzie with expanding software services throughout the company. Microsoft's just-announced reorganisation gives hosted-software services a starring role, providing a clear picture of the company's...
[September 21, 2005, 16:20]
Groove software to jive with Lotus Notes
News Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie founded Groove in October 1997. Groove Networks plans next week to release a new version of its collaboration program, which will offer integration with IBM's Lotus Notes and enhanced instant messaging capabilities.
[August 15, 2002, 8:05]
Bolt from the blue, Notes guru resigns
News An internal memo sent out on Tuesday stated that Ozzie was leaving Iris Associates, a Lotus subsidiary, to work on an unidentified new project. Ozzie -- a multimillionaire from the sale of Iris Associates to Lotus for $84 million in stock in 1994...
[October 1, 1997, 11:48]
Peer-to-peer conference rescheduled
News Speakers at the conference will include Ian Clarke, architect and coordinator of The Freenet Project, Congressman Rick Boucher and Ray Ozzie -- founder and chief executive of Groove Networks and creator of Lotus Notes.
[September 21, 2001, 7:30]
Mundie: How Windows will survive in the cloud
News That's a larger concern that Mundie, along with chief software architect Ray Ozzie, will need to tackle, with Microsoft's evolving "client/cloud" strategy positing that operating systems will perform a vital role in local processing.
[September 26, 2008, 11:26]
Ballmer should follow Gates out of Microsoft
Leader Promoting Ray Ozzie to chief software architect is a good start -- he understands the intricacies of today's world of Web-based services as well as Gates himself grasped the desktop market of the 1980s and early 1990s.
[June 16, 2006, 16:40]
Office Live nearly ready for launch
News Microsoft first announced plans for Office Live a year ago, when top executives Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie convened in San Francisco to kick off Microsoft's Live era of software. Office Live is still not an online version of Office, but the set of...
[November 1, 2006, 8:29]
Google sets its sights on the enterprise cloud
News While chief software architect Ray Ozzie may worry most about open source, Google's larger ambitions are clearly on his mind. Google sees all enterprise trends pointing toward cloud computing, and it wants a piece of the action.
[June 11, 2008, 8:49]
