Ray Ozzie to leave Microsoft Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect and the executive responsible for pushing the company into the cloud, plans to step down, Microsoft said on Monday. Ozzie is retiring from Microsoft and has no immediate plans following his departure, CEO Steve Ballmer wrote in a memo to employees that the company posted on its Web site

Steve Ballmer IS the right man to turn around Microsoft mobile The headline is my answer to the question “Is Steve Ballmer Really the Best Choice to Run Microsoft’s Consumer Business?” asked by Kevin Tofel at GigaOM on May 25th. There are several good reasons why Ballmer is the right man at the right time, but one stands out. He turned around another important Microsoft product: Windows.

Global CIO: Steve Ballmer Interview: ‘Hockey Stick’ Cloud Growth Ahead Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sent a message of late that Microsoft is “all in” when it comes to cloud computing. In an interview with InformationWeek editors, Ballmer made clear that this all-in cloud computing bet isn’t merely a long-term, over-the-horizon play.

Microsoft Office Heads For The Cloud Microsoft is betting big on the cloud, and nowhere will that be more apparent than in changes coming to the company’s staple Office franchise, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

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