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Ozzie To Microsoft: Look Beyond The PC

If Microsoft wants to stick around for much longer, it had better start preparing for a "post-PC" world. That's according Ray Ozzie, the software giant's soon-to-be-ex chief software architect. Regarding Microsoft's unnamed competition, Ozzie writes in a memo: "Their execution has surpassed our own in mobile experiences, in the seamless fusion of hardware & software & services, and in social networking & myriad new forms of internet-centric social interaction."

Microsoft, therefore, needs to prepare for a "post-PC world," dominated by "cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding, and ... appliance-like connected devices enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services." The solution? Just a few "killer apps & services," along with a handful of "killer devices." For the record, Ozzie isn't leaving Microsoft immediately, as he will being working on "the broader area of entertainment" for the company for an undetermined period of time.

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