Whoa, Bill Gates is Stepping Down from Microsoft
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by Mike on June 15, 2006

Marshall Kirkpatrick on TechCrunch: Ray Ozzie to replace Gates as Chief Software architect

There are a lot of people that are going to see this as very, very good news. It looks like Ray is here to stay.

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  • Whoa!!! May be there is hope for Microsoft yet.

  • Does this mean the Death of Email?
    Ray Ozzie- Chief Software Architect, to be, of (Outlook and Hotmail), is on record as saying that “eMail is so incredibly broken”.And that there should be no thoughts of an important role in the future for email. “There is NO possibility of sustainable constraints on email – a fundamentally unaccountable medium”. “If you’re doing a critical process in e-mail now, you won’t be doing it there for long” he said in 2003, before joining Microsoft. ” If you have work to do with others, online, try workspaces “, he recommends, mentioning Groove, Sharepoint of course, but hopefully he’ll accomodate others too, like http://www.GroupFactor.com, truly web-based, where, if you Register or login as Guest, you will also find a copy of Ray’s death – of-email article in the Links of Interest box.

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