Ray Ozzie's Message to All Industries
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Microsoft recently announced that Ray Ozzie, its Chief Software Architect and a sage of the high tech world, is leaving the company. On his way out the door, he wrote a public memo titled "Dawn of a New Day". I believe the scenario he presents in the memo is important enough to place it alongside other famous, game-changing documents, such as Bill Gates' "The Internet Tidal Wave" memo from 1995, which set the direction for Microsoft for the next 15 years.
In Ozzie's memo, he argues that the computer industries are at another of their periodic major inflection points. A ...