{"id":4916,"date":"2010-10-27T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2010-10-27T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T14:59:43","slug":"dawn-of-a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/27\/dawn-of-a-new-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of a New Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dawn of a New Day<\/strong><\/a> is the subject of a memo written by Ray Ozzie.\u00a0 According to Reuters, Ozzie is Microsoft Corp’s resident visionary and departing software chief<\/q>.<\/p>\n

In the Reuters story<\/strong><\/a>, they gave the following description of the memo:<\/p>\n

Microsoft Corp’s resident visionary and departing software chief has urged the company to move on from its Windows and Office roots and imagine a “post-PC world” of simple, global Web devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to agree with one of the forces that Ozzie identifies as driving the change.<\/p>\n

But as the PC client and PC-based server have grown from their simple roots over the past 25 years, the PC-centric \/ server-centric model has accreted simply immense complexity.<\/p>\n

Complexity kills<\/em>. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT.\u00a0 Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use.\u00a0 Complexity introduces security challenges.\u00a0 Complexity causes administrator frustration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am going to miss the PC-centric days, but I must admit, right now the thought of buying a new PC fills me with trepidation as I think about all the installed software on my current PC that I will have to install on the new one.<\/p>\n

As someone who enjoys writing his own software to solve problems, I hope the day never comes when I won’t be able to write software no matter what form the next computer revolution takes.\u00a0 This memo just reminds me of the need to stay abreast of the coming changes even though I am retired from the software industry.\u00a0 What I learned over the past 40 years will have to be constantly refreshed.<\/p>\n

From what I have read, this effort to keep up-to-date will either keep me mentally alert or will drive my mental deterioration even faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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