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Is Ray Ozzie The New Bill Gates?
News Ray Ozzie has rapidly gone from outsider to the man behind Microsoft's online services strategy. It worked and Ozzie stayed around for the transition. In 1997, Ozzie founded Groove, which made desktop software for collaboration and communication...
[June 16, 2006, 9:15]
Microsoft Gets With The Groove
News Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, a chief technical officer at the software giant. Ozzie, the inventor of Lotus Notes and a collaboration guru, will report to Bill Gates, Microsoft's...
[March 11, 2005, 8:00]
Ozzie, Mundie Pick Up Tech Mantle At Microsoft
News Think of Ray Ozzie as the left shoe and Craig Mundie as the right one. The more prominent role, as chief architect, is being given to Ray Ozzie, the software industry legend behind Lotus Notes. Ozzie: That's right, and there is no end to it.
[June 19, 2006, 10:25]
Microsoft Moves Beyond The Gates Era
News This means that Ray Ozzie, Steve Ballmer and Craig Mundie will all play a greater role in Microsoft's future -- battling Google, pushing Vista, and coping with lingering antitrust concerns and the spectre of open source.
[June 16, 2006, 16:20]
Microsoft Aligns Itself For A Hosted Future
News Ray Ozzie, who joined the company as one of its three chief technology officers earlier this year, following Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks, will expand his responsibilities to drive the software-based services strategy.
[September 21, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft Looks Beyond Gates For New Ideas
News Many of Gates' duties are being handed off to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie as part of the tech icon's effort to step away from day-to-day technical leadership at Microsoft. It's a good exercise that (CTO) David Vaskevitch and Bill and Ray (Ozzie) are...
[June 19, 2006, 17:15]
Microsoft's Mundie Looks Beyond Gates
News Ray Ozzie has taken over as chief software architect, but Gates' role overseeing technical strategy and policy has gone to Mundie. While Ozzie is tasked with trying to reorganise Microsoft's product units to better prepare for a world of online...
[May 18, 2007, 17:05]
Ozzie: Microsoft Is At An 'interesting Juncture'
News With Microsoft's Vista and Office 2007 released to manufacturing, the software giant is preparing to adapt the products for the web-dominated era, chief software architect Ray Ozzie said on Wednesday.
[November 9, 2006, 9:55]
Microsoft Hires IBM's Chief Architect
News Ferguson has now been signed up by the Redmond giant as Technical Fellow in Platforms and Strategy, further bolstering the team being built by chief software architect Ray Ozzie. Ozzie is himself a former IBM man, having created the Lotus Notes...
[January 16, 2007, 16:23]
Video: Microsoft's Silverlight In Action
News From Mix07: Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie, general manager of developer platforms, discuss important features of the new Silverlight application for web developers, including Silverlight Streaming.
[May 1, 2007, 17:12]
Ozzie Takes Microsoft Beyond Windows
News It also demonstrates how Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and Bill Gates' successor, is making his mark at the software giant. This is a moment where it's clear Ray [Ozzie] is putting his signature on Microsoft.
[May 3, 2007, 17:26]
Microsoft: Online Services Are For Businesses, Too
News Microsoft chief technical officer Ray Ozzie on Sunday said the company is creating Internet-delivered services for corporate customers to complement its on-premise software. Ozzie, speaking at Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference for business...
[June 12, 2006, 9:20]
Microsoft Gets Into The Groupware Groove
News If all goes as planned, Ray Ozzie will soon be a Microsoft employee. Ozzie and Microsoft's top brass last Thursday announced the sale of Groove Networks to the software giant. As part of the deal, Ozzie - the founder of Groove and the inventor of...
[March 14, 2005, 10:50]
Lotus Notes Creator To Unveil Peer-to-peer Product
News Ray Ozzie, the secretive creator of Lotus Notes,is getting ready to open the kimono. Late Monday, his new company, Groove Networks, sent out press invitations for what Ozzie described as the Preview Edition of groove, "a product that leverages peer...
[October 3, 2000, 11:26]
Microsoft's Ozzie Spearheads Drive To Online Services
News Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, is not one to take extreme views or make outlandish claims. But Ozzie said that the transition to software and services is under way and going well. And so far, Ozzie's contention that the industry...
[May 1, 2007, 12:57]
Microsoft's Groove Move Makes Solid Sense
Leader Microsoft's purchase of Groove Networks, software development team and its transferral of CEO Ray Ozzie to a CTO role within Microsoft, shows that the company is still capable of astute manoeuvres. Ozzie, best known as the inventor of Lotus Notes...
[March 11, 2005, 13:15]
Q&A: Meet The New Spam Buster
News Groove Networks chief executive Ray Ozzie hates spam just as much as the next guy. Charles Cooper recently chatted with Ozzie -- the legendary developer responsible for inventing what became Lotus Notes -- about the future of decentralised...
[April 16, 2002, 10:16]
Microsoft Sets Out Its Online Services Strategy
News At the company's Mix07 conference in Las Vegas on Monday, chief software architect Ray Ozzie and other Microsoft executives are scheduled to lay out the elements of Microsoft's "software plus services" push, its approach to making money from...
[April 30, 2007, 10:12]
Gates Sees Disruputive Changes Ahead
News In the memo, Gates cites an earlier missive from Ray Ozzie, outlining the importance of tapping online advertising and services as new revenue sources. It's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk," Ozzie wrote.
[November 9, 2005, 8:15]
2001: Peer-to-peer Technology Grows Up
News Tech sector veteran Ray Ozzie is planning to take on the might of Microsoft and Lotus with his Groove Networks venture. Ozzie's involvement in P2P, like that of Intel, is seen as a safe indication that this is a serious technology.
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
