SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Gates' successor as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, is leaving the company after five years. In an e-mail sent to Microsoft Corp. employees Monday, CEO Steve ...

After five years of swimming upstream against Microsoft’s culture, it looks like Ray Ozzie has called it a day. Or perhaps he was pushed? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers resist the “leaving under a cloud” ...

Within minutes of the official Microsoft Corp. announcement yesterday that Ray Ozzie is stepping into the role of chief software architect, his official biography at the company Web site was updated ...

Stepping in Bill Gates shoes is daunting, but Ozzie seems fine with it. He and another former CTO, Craig Mundie, are splitting some of Gates' duties. Gates remains chairman, and a full-timer for two ...

Ray Ozzie is Microsoft's top visionary, an executive who at one time was seen as a possible successor to Bill Gates. So it's not surprising that his decision to step down as chief software architect ...

Ray Ozzie, the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, has always had a vision of a fully connected world of torment. This is a world that began with Lotus Notes—a miserable program adopted by ...

It is not all that uncommon for a departing executive to let the company know how important he was to the company’s success or to provide unsolicited advice on where the company should go after he has ...

Microsoft has been undergoing some major downsizing in the past year. As employees were shown the door, there was growing resentment against the people at the top. It seems that they aren’t being let ...

Ray Ozzie can’t save Microsoft. He has failed miserably at Windows Live and his mission to lead Microsoft into the age of collaboration via Internet technologies. So says Computerworld blogger Preston ...

Will Microsoft's (MSFT) new cloud-computing framework, Mesh, prevent the PC software titan from getting disrupted by the move toward cloud computing? Will Mesh allow Microsoft to kill Google (GOOG), ...

Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie was discussing smartphones at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference earlier. Apparently, we just don’t get what is and what isn’t important in ...