Ray Ozzie's Departing Memo a Warning To Microsoft 345
itwbennett writes "In a parting memo to Microsoft, Ray Ozzie urges Microsoft to 'really, truly, seriously start thinking beyond the PC,' writes blogger Chris Nurney. Nurney suspects that 'Ozzie has been making these points internally for some time,' and that the memo 'could be his way of putting it in the public record.' Some of the memo's juicy bits: 'It's important that all of us do precisely what our competitors and customers will ultimately do: close our eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post-PC world might actually look like, if it were to ever truly occur. ... Today's PCs, phones & pads are just the very beginning; we'll see decades to come of incredible innovation from which will emerge all sorts of "connected companions" that we'll wear, we'll carry, we'll use on our desks & walls and the environment all around us.'"
The last line is the best part (Score:5, Funny)
"Sent from my iPad"
Your plastic pal who's fun to be with! (Score:3, Funny)
For the love of all that is good, I sincerely hope Ray Ozzie's choice of the term "Connected Companions" was solely so that this message could be interpreted by the buzzword-based PHBs at Microsoft, and not a hint that he wants to turn the next company he goes to into the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Re:MS is doing that (Score:4, Funny)
So what Darwin was saying is... the transformers will outlive humans?
Ballmer in 10 years.. (Score:2, Funny)
He can send email backward in time? Amazing... (Score:2, Funny)
To: Executive Staff and direct reports
Date: October 28, 2010
From: Ray Ozzie
Re:MS is doing that (Score:3, Funny)
At least we can agree it's a "log".
You Gotta Fight! For Your Right! To Parr-tay! (Score:5, Funny)
Windows Phone 7 : Too Late to the party ...
Or perhaps it saw that the party was being held on a Sunday night, knew it had work to go to the next day and decided not to go.
:-/
Meanwhile, Apple (which had a great time and was the life of the party) turned up at work late, badly hungover and looking like death. After failing the drugs test, it was finally let go by the Company, around the (same time that Microsoft was given that promotion) and went into a sad decline, never able to move on from its college partying days and accept that its popularity with the cool college kids didn't mean long term success.
Err... to be honest, that sounds like there should be a metaphor in there, but on reflection I doubt it. It was just my extrapolation of one colloquial expression to the point of drivel. Sorry folks
Re:MS is doing that (Score:2, Funny)
And what happens when they get out of high school?
They already have passed their genes on (or, if not, they will soon), so, as far as evolution is concerned, they won. A billionaire bachelor geek loses the evolution game to a former jock living in a trailer who has three kids with his first wife and two more with his mistress.
Re:MS is doing that (Score:5, Funny)
I think it was in the sperm wars documentary.
You know if I saw a video online titled, "Sperm Wars", the last thing I would conclude was that is a documentary.
My first thought would be something out of Japan, and it does not involve whales.
Re:MS is doing that (Score:5, Funny)
In my high school, for example, the jocks were generally seen as losers and the band kids (who were also quite nerdy) got the pussy. The were "fitter" Darwinistically.
Are you sure you are not posting from an alternate universe?
I noticed Slashdot made some changes with the javascript but....
Re:MS is doing that (Score:2, Funny)
I'm actively looking forward to being able to ditch my iPhone for a Windows Phone in a year or two. I hope Microsoft doesn't manage to screw it all up.
I absolutely agree. Sometime in the next two or three years, Microsoft will almost certainly release a phone that is technically just as capable as the iPhone is today.
Of course, it will probably run yet another incompatible Microsoft Mobile OS, probably called "Microsoft Windows Awesome Phone Great Job", and there won't be hardly any software for it, except "Microsoft Netflix Hulu SilverFlash Zune VideoStreaming App", Halo, and Tetris.
And six months after that phone is released, Microsoft will drop support for it when they release the "Microsoft Windows Cloud Appliance 2013." To the end user, the only real difference will be that it will be incompatible with all the old applications, and Halo will be constantly connected to the network. This will drive up huge roaming fees for rural customers.
But I kid. I can still listen to all my "Plays for Sure" songs on my Kin, right?
Re:Prosumer (Score:3, Funny)
No, I'm wasting my employer's time. What's your excuse?