Talk:Ray Ozzie

Innovator?

It seems appropriate "Ozzie was instrumental in the development of Lotus Symphony and Software Arts Inc.’s TK!Solver and VisiCalc..." - from his bio at Microsoft. Instrumental how exactly? His name doesn't appear in any of the information I've seen --Snori 00:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

My understanding is that he was one of the original software developers, but I don't have any references handy to back that up. If you feel it needs a reference, toss a {{fact}} and someone will get to it... eventually... :-) Warrens 02:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Ray's connection to Visicalc seems tenuous and mostly based on him working at Software Arts where Visicalc was originally developed. No significant mention of him in Dan Bricklin's Visicalc history site. You can read some info about Ozzie at Software Arts in Lessons learned from Ray Ozzie's early career at The Digitalyst blog, but it seems to say that he didn't work on Visicalc. --Fandyllic 6:25 PM PDT 21 Jun 2006

He was not one of the original developers of VisiCalc. He contributed at the margin to the Z80 (TRS-80) port when he first arrived at Software Arts. He then led development of the IL interpreter and runtime underlying the cross-platform portable version of VisiCalc and TK!Solver.

He worked with me (Barry Spencer) and Matt Stern on Release 1.0 of Lotus Symphony. The three of us constituted the core team for the product. Other teams provided additional tools for printing, file management, etc. Ray's primary responsibility was the word-processing module. Ray started working on Lotus Notes after initial coding was complete but before Lotus Symphony 1.0 shipped. Tobarryspencer (talk) 15:38, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Chief Technical Officer

Yes, it was immediate on 15 June. From the MS press release: "The company announced that Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie will immediately assume the title of chief software architect" , and from his page on the MS site: "On June 15, 2006, Ozzie assumed the title of Microsoft chief software architect previously held by Chairman Bill Gates" . --Snori 23:00, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

What did groove become at microsoft?

What did groove become at microsoft? Sharepoint?

Family Guy Guy (talk) 20:59, 18 October 2019 (UTC)