Certain of our competitors’ products and their rapid advancement & refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy. Our early and clear vision notwithstanding, 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.

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From Ray Ozzie’s tl;dr outro memo to Microsoft’s exec team. Is there any question at all that this is exactly the problem with Microsoft – a failure to recognize the obvious and obfuscate as much as possible?

Anyway, it’s nice to see that Ozzie has joined such forward thinking luminaries as Jonathan Schwartz by taking up blogging after finding nothing much else to do.