Rethinking Ray Ozzie

Someone needs to say it: Ray Ozzie was right

While Ray Ozzie's time at Microsoft is widely regarded with disinterest by those Windows watchers who even remember him, it's clear now that the erstwhile Chief Software Architect was simply rowing against a tide of internal calcification. And if you look at Microsoft's belated move into devices and services with any sense of perspective at all, one fact becomes clear: This is the path the Ray Ozzie pleaded Microsoft to take almost a decade ago. And the company's senior leadership simply ignored him.

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