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Somehow, almost every major media outlet today had excerpts from an exchange of emails between Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates about the direction of the 'Net, and Microsoft.
The raw docs can now be read at Scripting News.
As a commenter on Infectious Greed noted: Having worked there a while back these emails are directed at creating sea change internally. Knowing that they will be leaked means they must be worded carefully. But the primary focus is internal change. Microsoft's infrastructure problems (size, bureaucracy, etc) always make this hard. But you can be guaranteed everyone internally is talking about it. All meetings from here on out are painted in the light of what these memos are saying Microsoft must do. As a result decisions will be made differently. In a way, these are the equivalent of CEO/CTO blogs, really. In a world in which value is created by ideas, activities must be coordinatated by ideas rather than commands.
Nicholas Carr, at Rough Type, says:
Gates's desktop era is over. Ozzie's internet era has begun. Up until now, Microsoft has looked at the internet through the desktop; now it's looking at the desktop through the internet.
Ozzie's memo is very good. If you want an introduction to what's often called "Web 2.0," you could do worse than start with this document - not least because it doesn't use the term Web 2.0 at all.
posted by James DeLong @ 1:47 PM | Internet: P2P, Search Engines...
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