Ray Ozzie new CTO of Microsoft

I failed to comment about this on Thursday. But Ray Ozzie, the main person credited with the original creation of Notes (as in Lotus) has been made CTO of Microsoft as part of the deal for Microsoft to acquire Groove networks. Having spent much of my career working with the Notes product, I am quite impressed with Ozzie. Much of what was really better and not well-emulated by other technologies came early on. Presumably, Ozzie was the creative force behind this.

That said, I don't know what people are expecting to happen from this acquisition, but I don't expect that anything will happen overnight.

Ideally, Microsoft's new CTO will inspire and drive some sort of game-changer technology. If this is done sucessfully, then there is no point speculating as to what the game will look like after its been changes.