{"id":77,"date":"2005-11-09T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=38"},"modified":"2005-11-09T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T14:44:01","slug":"bill-tries-to-rally-the-troops-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/11\/09\/bill-tries-to-rally-the-troops-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill tries to rally the troops — again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hot topic on various tech websites and blogs is Microsoft’s attempt to rally its troops and attack the new Web services market — an attempt that comes 10 years almost to the day after Microsoft tried to turn its giant ship around and get religion with respect to the Internet<\/a>, a campaign that began with the famous “Internet tidal ave” memo from Bill Gates. This one begins with two memos: one from Bill G. and one from his new chief technology officer Ray Ozzie, one of the co-creators of IBM’s Lotus Notes and co-founder of Groove Networks. Tech guru Dave Winer managed to get hold of the two memos and has posted the full text of them on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They make for very interesting reading — even if, as Dave and John Battelle<\/a> suspect, they were written with the expectation that they would be leaked (Shelley at Burningbird thinks so too<\/a> and Good Morning Silicon Valley says it might as well have been a press release<\/a>.). If nothing else, the memos make it clear that Ray Ozzie is the new visionary at Microsoft, as Nicholas Carr points out on his blog<\/a>. Om Malik says that despite the vision, Microsoft still appears to be looking in the rear-view mirror and ignoring the move to mobile devices<\/a> or non-PC devices in their new vision. Robert Scoble says Microsofties are calling the Bill G. memo the “birthday memo” in honour of their supreme leader recently turning 50. Happy birthday, Bill.<\/p>\n

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The hot topic on various tech websites and blogs is Microsoft’s attempt to rally its troops and attack the new Web services market — an attempt that comes 10 years almost to the day after Microsoft tried to turn its giant ship around and get religion with respect to the Internet, a campaign that began … <\/p>\n

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