Ray Ozzie - Bill Gates' replacement at Microsoft

[Bob Crabtree]

The news that Bill Gates is to hand over the day-to-day running of Microsoft to concentrate on charity work has focussed attention on his replacement, Ray Ozzie.

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[Spud1]

could be the beginning of the end for microsoft.

No matter what we say about windows, office and the like - we know and use them, and most of us do secretly like them.

This man though, created the abomination that is Lotus Notes. Anyone who has ever had to use it on a day-to-day basis from a users point of view will know how horrible it is to use. Slow, buggy, fugly, very poor UI, buggy, buggy, buggy - The client in particular, its at least 10x worse than office.

Sametime - arg its a java based messaging client, enough said really..protocol is ok as far as they go though..

Sure domino works ok, but it's still a pain compared to it's rivals, and the designer only has a windows version afaik.

So we all have to hope that this man gets no control over what prodcuts microsoft starts to produce, we don't really want his influence making their products harder to use now do we

[Bob Crabtree]

Interesting viewpoint!

Anyone else share it or disagree?

[Moby-Dick]

Bobhave you ever used a Notes as a mail client ?

Its pants....

fact

[Bob Crabtree]

Bobhave you ever used a Notes as a mail client ?

Its pants....

fact

No, and I certainly wasn't trying to argue, merely see if others did or didn't share this viewpoint.

Any more for any more?