Except for a financial analysts event in July, Microsoft’s incoming chief software architect has been decidedly quite. His last blog post was April Fool’s Day. This morning, Ray Ozzie finally broke his silence.
Ozzie answered questions, many of them leading, at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium.
There’s a saying about talking much but saying little. While Ozzie shed some light on Microsoft’s services—or software-as-a-service—strategy, he offered more vagaries than specifics. Still, by piecing together the little he said with the much we know about Microsoft, the hour-long Q&A illuminates Microsoft’s services direction. Unfortunately, there is little apparent change in that direction from when Ozzie spoke to financial analysts last July.
Services Platform
“One of the things I’ve been working on is driving a services vision throughout the company,” Ozzie said.
The big difference is what’s happening inside of Microsoft—infrastructure changes within not yet taken to the outside market.
“The opportunity is only really fulfilled if we have a services platform,” Ozzie said. “We’ve been building the services platform that we use inside the company.”
Ozzie said his role has been one of helping different Microsoft groups adopt a single services platform; the less desirable option would be for each group to build out separate platforms.
If he accomplished nothing else at Microsoft, the single services platform would be a success. For too long, different products have built out their own technologies, sometimes conflicting with work done by other Microsoft divisions.
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