Saturday, May 2, 2009

Microsoft's Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, didn't make any earth-shaking news at today's Technology Alliance luncheon in downtown Seattle -- despite jokingly pretending at one point that he was pulling a list of Microsoft's secret projects from his jacket pocket.

He did, however, say some interesting things on a wide range of topics, responding to questions from the University of Washington's Ed Lazowska. To start, here's a video clip of Ozzie's comments on the role of intellectual property at a time of booming online collaboration and open-source projects.

Here's a clip, below, of Ozzie talking about the difference in approaches at startups and established companies such as Microsoft.

And in this clip, Ozzie references the Amazon Kindle in a discussion about special- vs. general-purpose devices, before commenting on the future of the news business model.




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