Comments on: Ozzie: Open source is greatest threat to Microsoft

Google is a concern, but open source is the bigger worry for Microsoft, according to Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.

[alegr]

Oh no! Father of Lotus Notes is now chief architect at Microsoft... MS is really doomed now.

[onlyauser]

Yes Microsoft!

Either open or DIE.

[igl00lgi]

A much stronger company? If they really believed their own BS they would not fight tooth and nail to derail truly open standards. What a bunch of MS marketing malarky. "How could any spreadsheet program need more than 2048 cells?" Or was that 1024? Ohh that was a BG quote. I think. Was it? These old crusty visionary software architechs are all confusing me now.

[Penguinisto]

Well, it's really simple: when programmers (and therefore a project) isn't beholden to shareholders, it tends to be more practical, forward-thinking, and can afford to have some really powerful features built into it. It also tends to have cleaner and more elegant code (after all, everyone is going to see it, so you'd better know what you're doing in there). Ozzie is correct on OSS forcing Microsoft to get off its bloated backside and actually do something. I just wonder if MSFT is doing enough to avoid being sent into history by it.

[jtjt145]

Microsoft incompetent wannabees,
Ozzie saying that instead of "the computer being at the center, you (the user) are at the center", is spitting into the face of Micro$oft's own software reality.

Using their latest, priceless software wreck 'Vista', has clearly shown that they DO NOT mean what they say. There are too many samples, to list them all on this comment, that in Micro$oft's understanding of how things should happen in this computer world, is that third party corporates paying tribute to M$, should be at the center of your computer, deciding what you can listen to, which software you have to use to listen, which broadcasts you are allowed to view, and when and how many times you are allowed to view, and yet another one: which files you can copy on your own hard disk to remain at M$'s discretion.

The user at the center of Microsoft's interest ... my a-s-s

[jtjt145]

Microsoft incompetent wannabees,
Ozzie saying that instead of "the computer being at the center, you (the user) are at the center", is spitting into the face of Micro$oft's own software reality.

Using their latest, priceless software wreck 'Vista', has clearly shown that they DO NOT mean what they say. There are too many samples, to list them all on this comment, that in Micro$oft's understanding of how things should happen in this computer world, is that third party corporates paying tribute to M$, should be at the center of your computer, deciding what you can listen to, which software you have to use to listen, which broadcasts you are allowed to view, and when and how many times you are allowed to view, and yet another one: which files you can copy on your own hard disk to remain at M$'s discretion.

The user at the center of Microsoft's interest ... ********!

[Dalkorian]

Quoted from the article ... "Open source has "made Microsoft a much stronger company" by driving changes to Microsoft's products to make them interoperable with open-source products." Wow. Reading that sentence made me dizzy, so I read it again. Now I feel like I'm drunk, my head is very light and the room is spinning ... or is it just Ozzie that's spinning? Hey, at least it was funny.

[Commander_Spock]

Re: "Ozzie, speaking at Sanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on Wednesday, said that while Google is a "tremendously strong competitor...open source was much more potentially disruptive" to Microsoft's business model" Yep, ya know - like the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program. Once the "Creator" of Lotus Notes et al - Always the "Creator" of Lotus Notes et al!

And, Its a "GROOVY" SITUATION (WORLD)!

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[Maccess]

''...open source was much more potentially disruptive' to Microsoft's business model."

Duh. Have you thought of tweaking your business model? Change is change. It's not directed at Microsoft. Change just is.

Get over it instead of trying to stand in the wind.

By the way, your latest line of buggy whips isn't selling all too well.

[t8]

Open Source is not that great a threat on its own, it is Open Source coupled with the Web being the richest and most open platform out there.

Both Open Source and the Web is the perfect storm and already the Microsoft boat is rocking uncontrollably.

[yoramn]

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