Ray Ozzie Quotations

Seamlessness is key to the live strategy. There's a significant opportunity for revenue growth through advertising as it pertains to software as a service.

Seamlessness is key to the live strategy, ... There's a significant opportunity for revenue growth through advertising as it pertains to software as a service.

I don't even think we have begun to scratch the surface.

Lately, I've been living a bicoastal life. As a longtime Massachusetts resident who has benefited greatly from the incredible talent in this region, I'm excited that my new, bicoastal way of life allows me to continue collaborating and contributing to the Bay State's future prosperity.

Just as in the past, we must reflect upon what's going on around us, and reflect upon our strengths, weaknesses and industry leadership responsibilities, and respond, ... As much as ever, it's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk. We must respond quickly and decisively.

We haven't yet cracked how to integrate what's on the desktop with what's in the various content management systems.

You just want to think about what you want to accomplish,

We will design and license Windows and our Internet-based services as separate products, so customers can choose Windows with or without Microsoft's services, ... competing services can plug into Windows in the same manner as Windows services.

What should we do to bring Office's classic COM-based publish-and-subscribe capabilities to a world where RSS and XML have become the de facto publish-and-subscribe mechanisms? ... Connected Office.

While we continue to make good progress on many fronts, a set of very strong and determined competitors is laser-focused on Internet services and service-enabled software,

We will be leaders in terms of understanding where ads really serve the user to get their jobs done, not just in a search box on the Web.

We currently have about a 10 percent share of the online market. We fully intend to grow this share.

There will be very few companies who have that scale to build that infrastructure.

So now there is a 'second tsunami' coming. I wonder just how hard Microsoft will slam into the bottom this time before they get it figured out, if they get it figured out correctly.

Our dream is to deliver a seamless experience where all the technology in your life and business comes together in a way that 'just works' for you.

a seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

For enterprises, I think we've just barely scratched the surface about which systems can...be brought into the cloud in some way, shape or form.

It's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk, ... We must respond quickly and decisively.

Services-enabled software really is going to change the nature of how almost everyone uses technology, from consumers to small businesses to enterprises, ... in different forms and at different paces.

In its simplest form, the clipboard enabled the user to simply grasp the concept of moving a copy of the information from one application to another. Simply stated, I'd like to extend the clipboard user model to the web.

In just a few weeks time, several Microsoft product groups ... built prototypes and demos, and found that it works and interoperates quite nicely,

Clearly as the flexibility and potential of 'mashing up' and recombining application components gets closer to someone who understands the user's needs, the value to that user increases.

I believe at this juncture it's generally very clear to each of us why we need to transform ? the competitors, the challenges, and the opportunities.

There are pros and cons to taking money. The best kind of company is one where you don't have to take any moneyI funded the first few years myself. But eventually, I took some money from Mitch Kapor and then others. Not so much because I needed it at that point, but because I knew that, ultimately, you cannot accomplish something completely on your own. You really need to develop a network of people who win when you win.

Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.

I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.