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Dawn of a New Day
- pierrefar 16y agoOdd: It's dated 3 days from now, October 28th.
- grantbachman 16y agoIt's the future.
- moserware 16y agoIt's probably tied to the start of Microsoft's PDC 2010 conference on purpose.
- dennisgorelik 16y agoI guess it's some sort of broken time machine.
- erikstarck 16y agoIn other news: Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft.
- unexpected 16y agoI find it striking that the biggest, tangible impact that everyone has pointed to when discussing Ozzie's career at Microsoft is some memo that he wrote 5 years ago.
- michael_dorfman 16y ago"Certain of our competitors’ products and their rapid advancement & refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy. Our early and clear vision notwithstanding, their execution has surpassed our own in mobile experiences, in the seamless fusion of hardware & software & services, and in social networking & myriad new forms of internet-centric social interaction." Ouch! Coming from the Chief Software Architect, that's quite an indictment.
- dennisgorelik 16y agoThat's probably why Balmer fired Ozzie.
- rbanffy 16y agoBy shooting the messenger, Ballmer gets rid of the bad news. Two years ago, before shedding my managerish responsibilities here, I had to remind my team that I didn't care if they wait until the next briefing to tell me the good news, but that I want to know of bad news as soon as they learn them, even if that means waking me up in the middle of the night.
- portman 16y agoAm I the only one who finds Ray's language hard to parse? In the first few paragraphs alone, Ozzie uses: - the realm of the service-centric ‘seamless OS’ - shifted Office from being PC-centric toward now also robustly spanning the web - intrapreneurial leaders stepped up to build and deliver an innovative service I'm reminded of this recent John Gruber quip on Microsoft's "language problem": http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/11/microsoft-language http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/11/microsoft-langua... What do they feed people in Redmond that makes them such ineffective writers?
- unexpected 16y agoNo, this post is a classic case of marketing, techno, gobbedly-gook. It has no clear thesis, and riffs from topic to topic. I got bored halfway through, and I still don't understand what his point is. My favorite use of language is the one you mention "intrapreneurial"!
- hernan7 16y ago"Intrapreneurial"... I think the last time I heard that word was in the 90's at IBM (along with "rightsizing" and other business jargon that I forgot). Then came the Internet boom and brought along a new layer of lexical detritus.
- danpker 16y agoI wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't the person who wrote it.
- ojbyrne 16y agoThe praise that techcrunch gives it almost seems like parody: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/ray-ozzie-dawn-of-a-new-day-memo/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/ray-ozzie-dawn-of-a-new-day... "Below is a short excerpt from the end of the memo, as I wouldn’t dream of stealing the man’s thunder"
- brc 16y agointrapreneurial is a term for being an entrepreneur within the confines of a larger organisation. It's a business school buzzword for people working in a larger company to feel like they're just like real entrepreneurs, but doing it with the might and resources of a large organization behind them. Or, as otherwise known, 'doing your job'. To be fair, though, creating new products/services within a larger organization can provide significant challenges. You could argue that Google promotes intrapreneurship with the 20% time projets.
- z0r 16y agoI found that my eyes were unable to focus on any of the text within fifteen seconds of opening this link. Buzzwords floated in and out of view as I scrolled from top to bottom at speed.