Mike Isaac in Social on August 9, 2012 at 12:00 pm PT
A new app aims to take on the problem of search in a very social context.
People argue about, are we in a post-PC world. Why are we arguing? Of course we’re in a post-PC world, but that doesn’t mean the PC dies. That just means that the scenarios that we use them in, we stop referring to them as PCs, we refer to these other things. But it’s still general computation.
– Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former technology chief
Ina Fried in News on January 5, 2012 at 11:55 am PT
The Lotus Notes creator and Groove founder is hiring for his latest project, an effort that pairs him with some old colleagues. However, Ozzie is remaining tight-lipped on just what he is up to.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 14, 2010 at 10:42 am PT
The founder of Gmail is taking a dim view of Google’s Chrome OS, predicting that by next year the project will either have been killed or merged with Android. In a series of posts on FriendFeed, Paul Buchheit argues that the Web-based operating system brings little to the table that Android can’t do better.
Kara Swisher in News on October 28, 2010 at 5:37 am PT
Later today after the markets close, Microsoft will make its first-quarter earnings announcement, which a consensus of analysts expect to show earnings of 55 cents a share on $15.8 billion in revenue.
That’s a big lift from the year before, of course, when earnings were 40 cents a share and revenues were lower.
Nonetheless, Wall Street has been downgrading Microsoft’s stock, mostly due to worries about the surging popularity of the Apple iPad, the introduction of even more upcoming tablets and the trend’s overall impact on PC and, especially, netbook sales that run the company’s software.
John Murrell in News on October 18, 2010 at 1:50 pm PT
Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft five years ago as chief software architect and played a large role in developing the company’s cloud service offerings, is retiring. CEO Steve Ballmer said Ozzie will stay with the company through a transition period, but has no specific plans after that.
Beth Callaghan in D8 on June 21, 2010 at 12:39 pm PT
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie appeared onstage the last morning of the D8 conference. The two talked about the tech giant’s competitors–Apple, Google, and Yahoo–and the obvious challenges it faces in keeping up with with the changes in the tech industry in recent years. Here’s the full, uncut interview.
Kara Swisher in News on June 21, 2010 at 6:00 am PT
As promised,
All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth
D: All Things Digital conference, held earlier this month.
Let’s start off this week with a bang–in the person of the always lively Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who appeared onstage at
D8 with the tech giant’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie.
John Paczkowski in Social on June 17, 2010 at 12:01 am PT
Since the close of the eighth
D: All Things Digital conference, we’ve been inundated with requests for a downloadable version of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s opening night session with co-hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Given their number, we’ve decided to oblige. The full Jobs session is now available on iTunes as both a video and audio podcast.
John Paczkowski in D8 on June 4, 2010 at 12:01 am PT
During his
D8 interview today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer referred to Google as a “behemoth,” a word that has long been used to describe Microsoft. In the videos after the jump, Ballmer talks about Microsoft’s rivalry with Google in search, the cloud and mobile. And in the second one, he offers Google a bit of antitrust advice.
