Ozzie: Painting a cloudy future for Microsoft?

摘要

It Is not uncommon for a departing executive to let the company know how important he was to its success or to provide unsolic-rnited advice on where the company should go next. Microsoft's Ray Ozzie is the latest to undertake this ritual.rnOzzie, about to step down as Microsoft's chief software architect, sent a memo that indicates the view in Ozzie's rear view mirror may not accurately reflect reality and his view of the future pretends that Microsoft has more control of what lies ahead.rnOzzie's "Dawn of a New Day" memo comes five years after the "The Internet Services Disruption" memo he wrote shortly after settling into Microsoft. Ozzie, not unreasonably, describes that earlier memo, along with "a few decks and discussions," as being transformational for Microsoft, and maybe less unreasonably, for the industry.