Ray Ozzie, CTO of Microsoft, recently sent out an internal Microsoft e-mail outlining his technical vision for the company. It’s a fascinating read that can be viewed here in its entirety.

My favorite quotes are:

Only a few years ago I’d have pointed to the Weblog and the Wiki as significant emerging trends; by now they’re mainstream and have moved into the enterprise.

and,

At the grassroots level, such projects actively use standards such as vCards and iCal for sharing contacts and calendars. Most all use RSS in one way or another for data sharing. Remixing and mashing of multiple web applications using XML, REST and WS is common; interesting mash-ups range from combining maps with apartment listings, to others that place RSS feeds on top of systems and data not originally intended for remixing.

This entry was posted by Ted Pibil on Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 at 4:13 pm and is filed under RSS, Weblogs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.