Ray Ozzie Starts Blog on MSN Spaces

Posted on November 17, 2005

Ray Ozzie has re-entered the blogosphere with a new blog on MSN Spaces. Ray Ozzie is a Chief Technical Officer of Microsoft. He used to blog while at Groove Networks, which was sold to Microsoft. Ozzie is also known as the creator of IBM Corp.'s Lotus Notes. His old ozzie.net domain now forwards to the new MSN Spaces website. Ozzie says that while blogging he won't be able to engage in all the controversies.

Mostly, though, it's my intent to use this as a channel through which to reply and converse with you in a manner that scales. Not on all topics; it's clear that the nature of my role at this large, public company dictates that I should and will stay silent on certain matters. At times there will be controversies I just can't or won't engage in. Many years ago at Groove we developed an early blogging policy. Things may have evolved quite a bit since then, but this policy continues to give reasonable guidance that I'll continue to apply to my own comments here.

This will be a popular a blog and could help attract people to MSN Spaces.