Comments on: Ray Ozzie's dream of connectivity

In an in-depth profile, Steven Levy traces Ray Ozzie's journey from his undergrad days to his assumption of Bill Gates' software czar responsibilities at Microsoft.

[Mr. Dee]

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that Ozzie/Gates meeting. I have been hearing it a long time now how much Gates admires and respects him. For a man like Gates to put his entire life's work in the hands of Ozzie is a testament to this guys knowledge. He has already disrupted and added some revitalization to MSN by transitioning many of the services to the Live brand. I think its one of the best things that happened in recent years. A lot of things are finally coming together, but consolidation is still necessary I believe because Microsoft does have a lot of cloud initiatives going on and its hard to keep in check whats worth following, Azue, Live Mesh, Skydrive, Live Sync and Office Live Workspace.

[keaura]

Not to take the wind out of Ozzie's sails (too much, anyway), but Adobe is working on a cloud-based project called "Genesis" (see http://www.adobe.com/go/genesis for details). It is AIR based and lets you pull together (or mash-up) sets of web and Flex apps into a collaborative and shared environment. You'll be able to not only share files with colleagues, but conference with them in real-time and the applications can exchange information dynamically using a variety of methods.

[jlm429]

who the hell cares what adobe is doing in the cloud?

[OzairM]

He has to be worth it