Microsoft thinks about the operating system market in terms of "devices and services," according to the company's chief financial officer. That view may not be too different from Microsoft's past vision statements on "three screens and a cloud," which ha

I know that the Tux Brigade and open source diehards like to paint Microsoft as some great big bad monopolistic company that is out to destroy everything Linux and turn open source into a bad word; and for the most in the past this might have truly been

The meeting took place a week before Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, and the topic was open source software. It was the summer of 2008, and for years, the open source community had viewed Microsoft as public enemy number one. Seven years earlier, CEO

When you think of Microsoft, friend of open source probably isn't one of the things thy comes to mind, but the company's been keeping an eye on the community for a while now. A new article from Wired shows how the company has been changing its stance, ma

The story recounts a meeting in the summer of 2008 where some (unnamed) top Microsoft execs argued against opening up more to open source while Ray Ozzie, the chief software architect, and Sam Ramji, the open source strategist, argued the opposite. Accor

The meeting took place a week before Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, and the topic was open source software. It was the summer of 2008, and for years, the open source community had viewed Microsoft as public enemy number one. Seven years earlier, CEO

Enterprise success with next-generation collaborative software, built around social networks, will require the same attention to deployment, development, and administration that Lotus Notes did. Enterprise success with next-generation collaborative softw

Ray Ozzie e-mailed earlier today to let me know that he has a post-Microsoft start-up, and he’s hiring. But aside from mentioning that the company is called Cocomo and doesn’t yet have an office of its own, he didn’t want to divulge much more. Ozzie is

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Ray Ozzie, who served five years at Microsoft as chief software architect before retiring in 2010, has let it be known that he is working on a new startup company. The company, Cocomo, appears to be focused on some sort of mobile communications and socia

Back in the late 1990s, I got into the habit of contacting Ray Ozzie every month or so to see if he would spill some news about his startup Groove Networks, then in stealth mode, ultimately bought by Microsoft. Ozzie, who left Redmond a year ago, was unf

Lotus Notes creator and former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is coming back with a startup named Cocomo that seems to be focused on mobile communication. Ozzie says the company is recruiting, but it won't be ready to say what they're worki

Everyone knew that Ray Ozzie would eventually resurface after leaving Microsoft. According to the report in the Boston Globe, Ozzie is joined by two ex-Microsoft employees, Ransom Richardson and Matt Pope. Ozzie confirmed the bootstrapped venture but off

January 05, 2012, 2:54 PM — Lotus Notes creator and former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is coming back with a startup named Cocomo that seems to be focused on mobile communication. Ozzie says the company is recruiting but it won't be read

Network World — Lotus Notes creator and former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is coming back with a startup named Cocomo that seems to be focused on mobile communication. Ozzie says the company is recruiting but it won

The news was first reported Wednesday by Scott Kirsner in his Boston.com blog. The only source for what Cocomo does - and where it is based - comes from a job listing on the job board of website 37signals.com. The nebulous descriptions reads: “A new day

A little more than a year after retiring from Microsoft Corp. , local software legend Ray Ozzie is back with Cocomo Inc. , a startup that seems to be based in Boston and Seattle, and seems to be in the mobile social space. The news was first broken by Sco

Since when is naming your startup and posting a job ad news? When your name is Ray Ozzie, that’s when. Ozzie left Microsoft at the end of 2010 after four years on the job (a move that I foreshadowed a year earlier). He had joined Microsoft with its acqu