Comments on: Ozzie, Mundie pick up tech mantle at Microsoft

newsmakers Executives Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie talk to CNET News.com about how they plan to fill Gates' shoes.

[Stalin Hornsby]

A better [msn.msn.com] day; things are looking up for everyone.

Good luck.

[LwBrown5]

Reminds me of...

Ozzie+Mundie=OzzyMundius

Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822

awesome.

very nice - thanks for the post

[sbwinn]

Funny Gates Story

From CNet article on Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, by former
Microsoft developer Marlin Eller. . .

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-211434.html

Eller . . . recounts a time early in his career when he
inadvertently insulted Gates and his technical ability.

As Eller tried to fill in the background of a round digital clock
with color, using a flood-filled algorithm, it didn't work. He was
able, however, to write some code that enabled the BASIC code
to correctly flood-fill the clock.

Pulling Gates over to view the initial problem, Eller said: "Who
was the jerk who wrote this brain-dead piece of sh*t?" Without
waiting for a response, Eller demonstrated how he had fixed the
problem.

After Gates noted that the new algorithm was "nice" and
returned to his office, a colleague informed Eller it was Gates
who was the "jerk" who initially had written the "brain-dead"
algorithm.

Ozzie and Mundie have their work cut out for them.

[ServedUp]

Omigosh.

These guys look just like the PC guy in the "Get a Mac" Ads.

The resemblance is uncanny.

[clayton muhler]

Two More Eager Microsoft Crooks

There's many more behind them...

Mundie, Mundie

I'm just curious how Mundie found his way to Microsoft? I was acquainted with him back in Junior High School.

[Blito]

Lotussoft?

So the inventor of Lotus Notes now is competing against his own invention with Exchange. What the heck is that?
Please.

[ServedUp]

People from Microsoft.

Doesn't it seem that everybody from Microsoft look dorky or what?
Its like a freak show in Redmond these days.

[tonybove]

Ozzie and Harriet

With Ozzie and Mundie at the helm, Microsoft is not likely to
make its transition -- from Office and Windows revenue streams
to services -- very quickly. While heaping praise on Ozzie for at
least having a truly innovative past, let's not forget that Mundie,
and ultimately Ballmer, will remain "the voice of reason" in
Redmond.

I couldn't help comparing the Ozzie and Mundie relationship to
the one in the TV show "Ozzie and Harriet" (about Ozzie and
Harriet Nelson and their sons David and Ricky Nelson), which
lasted 14 years on American television despite its tired formula
of parents raising precocious children. Indeed, Microsoft may
last another 14 years despite its tired formula of proprietary
software lock-in based on a monopoly base. Read the following
description of Ozzie and Harriet's relationship to see how it
might fit Ray Ozzie, a more impulsive idealist, and Craig Mundie,
the voice of reason:

"The genial, bumbling Ozzie was the narrative linchpin of Ozzie
and Harriet, attempting to steer his young sons into the proper
paths (usually rather ineffectually) and attempting to assert his
ego in a household in which he was often ill at ease. That ego,
and that household, were held together by wise homemaker
Harriet. Although she may have seemed something of a cipher to
many viewers, clad in the elegant dresses that defined the
housewife on 1950s television, Harriet represented the voice of
reason on Ozzie and Harriet, rescuing Ozzie -- and occasionally
David and Rick -- from the consequences of over-impulsive
behavior."

My question is, will a Ricky Nelson emerge?