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Google has absolutely nothing on open supply with regards to potential competitive threats to Microsoft, based on Redmond;s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.Ozzie fielded a number of questions on his part at Microsoft plus the provider;s evolving technologies methods in the course of an look in the Sanford Bernstein Strategic Choices Conference on Could 28. (I listened to his session by way of the Webcast.)Ozzie reiterated that it frequently requires a powerful competitor to really galvanize Microsoft.“Microsoft has built up a culture of crisis,” Ozzie told conference attendees.Competitors like his former employer, Lotus, and now, Google,Office 2010 Activation, have spurred the enterprise to make changes to its business to stay ahead, Ozzie said. But while Google is a “tremendously powerful competitor,Windows 7 Product Key,” Ozzie acknowledged, “open supply was much more potentially disruptive” to Microsoft;s business. (He noted that, unlike Google, quite a few open-source programmers aren;t beholden to shareholders.)Ozzie said that competing with open source “made Microsoft a much stronger company.” He cited changes Microsoft has made to its online business model — such as focusing on making its closed-source software interoperable with open-source products — as directly attributable to that competition.In the course of the rest of his hour-long talk, Ozzie focused on lots of of his favorite topics, such since the need for a mesh for devices and people (Live Mesh) along with the importance of giving customers choice (with Software+Services, rather than a 100% cloud-services approach). A handful of other tidbits from his remarks that I found interesting:* The changing nature of the operating system in an increasingly services-based world. Ozzie noted that if a new operating system were designed today, it wouldn;t be a single piece of software that operates a single computer. It would be something that could accommodate multiple devices, with all the user at the center. That sounds like Live Mesh — but possibly he was also hinting about Microsoft;s post-Windows,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, distributed operating system I keep hearing rumors about…
* Yahoo as an “accelerator.” Ozzie deftly deflected concerns about Microsoft;s on-again/off-again deal-making with Yahoo. “Yahoo was not a strategy unto itself,” he said. “It was an accelerator to the ad platform.” Ozzie spoke highly of Yahoo;s work within the social-networking and community space,Office 2010 Professional Plus, adding that these kinds of services represented the next wave in communications technologies. He also pooh-poohed any notion that Microsoft could possibly be wavering on its commitment to being an online player. “We are very, very serious about the online space,” he said.
* Programming tools that work across various devices. At the very end of his remarks, Ozzie made a passing reference to the need for not just programming tools and services that can accommodate multi-core/many-core systems,Microsoft Office 2007 Key, but also tools that can work across a range of devices. He noted that there;s a need for development tools for building software program that works across multiple devices. A reference to the Live Mesh Software Development Kit (SDK), expected to debut at Microsoft;s Professional Developers Conference in late October? Perhaps….