10.18.10
Gemini version available ♊︎Bill Gates’ Successor Quits Microsoft!
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Summary: The man behind the ‘reinvention’ of Microsoft is giving up
THIS was predictable. We said it would happen some months ago. We wrote about him on numerous occasions as well. For anyone who still has doubts about Microsoft’ fast demise, this is possibly the seal.
Coverage so far includes (“retirement” is somewhat of a cushion/euphemism by the way):
- Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft — one more visionary walks out the door
- Boredom and lack of influence drove Ray Ozzie out
- Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft under three screens and a cloud
- Ray Ozzie, Cloud Advocate, Floats Away From Microsoft
- Bill Gates’ successor at Microsoft to retire
- Microsoft software head Ray Ozzie resigns
- Assessing Ray Ozzie’s impact at Microsoft
- Ray Ozzie to Leave Microsoft
- Microsoft’s successor to Bill Gates to retire
- Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie stepping down
- Ray Ozzie Stepping Down as Microsoft Chief Software Architect
- Ray Ozzie to Leave Microsoft, CEO Ballmer Says
- Ray Ozzie hangs up his Chief Software Architect hat
- Ray Ozzie retiring from Microsoft
- Ozzie to retire from Microsoft
- Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie leaving Microsoft
- Ray Ozzie Steps Down as Microsoft Chief Software Architect
- Ray Ozzie to leave Microsoft
- Ray Ozzie to leave Microsoft
- Ray Ozzie Steps Down From Key Role at Microsoft
- Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, to Step Down
- Ray Ozzie to Step Down as Microsoft Chief Software Architect
- Ray Ozzie steps down from Chief Software Architect position, sets his sails for….?
- Ray Ozzie to Leave Microsoft: Has The Future Left the Building?
- Microsoft’s (MSFT) Chief Software Architect Ozzie to Leave Company
- Microsoft & The Cloud: Bill Gates’ Replacement Ray Ozzie Leaving MSFT [CEO Steve Ballmer Announces Chief Software Architect Leaving Redmond After Five Years]
- Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie set to step down
- Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie to Retire
- Ray Ozzie Steps Down At Microsoft
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ozzie Steps Down
- Ray Ozzie leaving Microsoft
- Bill Gates’ successor at Microsoft to retire
- Microsoft Software Head Ray Ozzie To Depart
- Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie to retire
- Microsoft’s visionary heads out the door
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ozzie to Step Down
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie stepping down
- Ray Ozzie stepping down from Microsoft
- Ray Ozzie leaving post as Microsoft’s chief software architect
- Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie To Retire
- Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, to Step Down
- Goodbye cloud? Chief software architect Ray Ozzie to depart Microsoft
- Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie to step down from chief software architect role
This massive news marks the beginning of the end of ‘new’ Microsoft — the one which dreamt of Fog Computing. Is Ballmer about to leave too? █
“Microsoft can’t charge $80 or $100 when there’s Linux for free on netbooks,” Rosoff said. On regular PC sales, Microsoft’s profit margins are typically about 70 percent to 80 percent, he explained.”
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Agent_Smith said,
October 18, 2010 at 8:42 pm
M$ and crApple act as if we were still at the 80′s. crApple still manages to cut costs resorting to sweatshops in China, but the times of absurd profits are gone. And, M$ should acknowledge that and change. But it doesn’t. crApple is the next. Folks will no longer fall for the fool’s gold their pricey gadgets are.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
October 18th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Apple has already captured a lot of its target market, which is a niche.
twitter said,
October 19, 2010 at 5:32 pm
It looks like Ray’s exit will cover some broken promisses in Massachusetts.
Others should note from this example that there’s no pony at the bottom of the pile. Microsoft is an abusive monopoly that can not pay off everyone who wants to save money by dumping them. Just dump them already.