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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:05 Ben Gilbert Azure started as a incubation by Ray Ozzy with a completely separate team than your existing, like, actual product group selling server and tools.
- ▶ 1:28:06 Steve Ballmer Partly Ray wanted, you know, Ray was Ray wanted some operating control over the thing and putting it under Muglia would have made it harder for Ray.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:44:03 David Rosenthal Developed by the legendary Ray Ozzie.
- ▶ 3:36:08 David Rosenthal And that is Ray Ozzie.
- ▶ 3:36:10 David Rosenthal Ray, of course, being the author of Lotus Notes, Ray is a legendary developer, and he has great relationships within Microsoft, because Ray built Lotus Notes not at Lotus, but at his own software studio startup, and Lotus was just his…
- ▶ 3:36:29 David Rosenthal So he's known all the Microsoft guys for years.
- ▶ 3:36:42 Ben Gilbert Lotus Notes is actually Ray's company.
- ▶ 3:36:47 Ben Gilbert Ray and his company are building it.
- ▶ 3:36:50 Ben Gilbert Their publisher is Lotus, but Ray can have agreements with Microsoft where he's privy to information that Lotus is not.
- ▶ 3:36:59 Ben Gilbert And so Ray's like really close in the fold with the Microsoft folks.
- ▶ 3:37:03 Ben Gilbert I think he was even a contractor working on, maybe the project was Landman, but he was actively contributing to other Microsoft products.
- ▶ 3:37:12 David Rosenthal Right, because he had his own software company.
- ▶ 3:37:14 Ben Gilbert Yeah, he was almost like Switzerland in the middle.
- ▶ 3:37:17 David Rosenthal So, by this era, now, 2004, 2005, Ray has a new startup called Groove Networks, and Microsoft just acquires the company, and they get Ray.
- ▶ 3:37:29 David Rosenthal So in June, 2006, when Bill announces his coming retirement, Ray gets named as his successor in the official chief software architect role.
- ▶ 3:37:40 Ben Gilbert And essentially what's going on is Bill and Steve kind of look at Ray
- ▶ 3:38:00 David Rosenthal So Ray writes the Internet Services Disruption Memo in October, and to quote from it, this is Ray writing, the environment has changed yet again, this time around services.
- ▶ 3:39:18 Ben Gilbert Alright, so this is Ray in 2005.
- ▶ 3:39:21 David Rosenthal And so in January, 2006, Ray with Steve Bomber's full blessing goes and starts recruiting for a secret project within Microsoft incubated outside any of the existing divisions.
- ▶ 3:41:53 David Rosenthal So, Ray is recruiting for this project, codenamed Red Dog, and he brings in the biggest of big guns.
- ▶ 3:44:11 Ben Gilbert The bigger concern is Ray Ozzie and Dave Cutler are working on this.
- ▶ 3:46:31 David Rosenthal So, in 2010, Ray Ozzie actually leaves the company, but as he's doing, he and Steve roll Red Dog, by this point in time renamed Azure, back into the server and tools business, and the two of them go to the University of Washington, and…
- ▶ 3:52:20 Ben Gilbert So, to review how it came to be, interestingly, it was Ray Ozzy in an incubation group doing it outside the bounds of the business units.
- ▶ 3:56:04 David Rosenthal I kind of think all of the credit for the vision for it and the championing it for the initial seven years within Microsoft goes to Steve and to Ray.
- ▶ 4:46:22 Ben Gilbert Huge thank you to Ray Ozzie, who David and I both spoke with.
- ▶ 4:46:27 Ben Gilbert Ray is so damn delightful.
- ▶ 4:46:32 David Rosenthal The right way to put it, Ray is now running another startup, a new one called Blues Wireless, and