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Ray Ozzie: Five Years at Microsoft

Posted by Scott Kirsner March 6, 2010 07:14 PM

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Here's some supplemental material related to Sunday's Globe column about Ray Ozzie, the chief software architect at Microsoft, and his five-year tenure there.

- A few months after Microsoft bought Ozzie's start-up Groove Networks, I drove up to Beverly to chat with Ozzie about his career in tech. Audio from that chat is here.

- My Globe colleague Rob Weisman interviewed Ozzie in 2006, when he hit the one-year mark with Microsoft.

- For that piece, Bill Gates discussed Ozzie's role at Microsoft in an e-mail.

- Wired Magazine ran a lengthy piece in late 2008 titled "Ray Ozzie wants to push Microsoft back into start-up mode."

- The writer of that piece, Steven Levy, conducted an on-stage interview with Ozzie last summer about cloud computing, for the Churchill Club.





- Microsoft Bing offers this bird's eye view of Ozzie's oceanfront estate in Manchester-by-the-Sea.

- And Ozzie had a brief cameo in this video Microsoft made for the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show about "Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft." (About 5:35 in.)


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About Scott Kirsner Scott Kirsner was part of the team that launched Boston.com in 1995, and has been writing a column for the Globe since 2000. His work has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and Variety. Scott is also the author of the books "Fans, Friends & Followers" and "Inventing the Movies," was the editor of "The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England," and was a contributor to "The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston." Scott also helps organize several local events on entrepreneurship, including the Nantucket Conference and Future Forward. Here's some background on how Scott decides what to cover, and how to pitch him a story idea.

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