[CAnet - news] Bill Gates discovers web services is a disruptive technology

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[Some excerpts from Inernetnews article - BSA]

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3562881


The blogoshpere was abuzz today about leaked memos from Microsoft (Quote,
Chart) Chief Architect Bill Gates discussing the urgency the company faces
with its strategy to deliver software over the Internet.

The Oct. 30 memo from Gates to his senior staff, which internetnews.com also
obtained, said Redmond needs to utilize Web-based technologies and must "act
quickly and decisively" or "this coming 'services-wave' will be very
disruptive." In many ways, he hinted, it already is.

"Today, the opportunity is to utilize the Internet to make software far more
powerful by incorporating a services model which will simplify the work that
IT departments and developers have to do while providing new capabilities,"
Gates wrote.

The memo urged upper management to exploit the Web services strategy. "The
next sea change is upon us," Gates added.

"We will build our strategies around Internet services and we will provide a
broad set of service APIs and use them in all of our key applications."

In the memo, which urged senior managers to act quickly and decisively,
Gates included a memo dated Oct. 28, 2005 by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief
technology officer. The networking tech visionary was hired earlier this
year to help Microsoft build out Web-based business and services, among
other goals.

The latest memo is seen as helping to keep Microsoft's shift in strategy a
top item of discussion across the technology industry -- and certainly
within Microsoft and its partner companies.




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