Former Microsoft Chief Architect Ray Ozzie Starts New Company
There is a first public job posting that seeks a lead UX designer, for both smartphone and tablet iOS and Android platforms. The candidate the company would consider will have "had a minimum of several years of experience designing, building and delivering mobile apps on platforms such as iPhone, iPad, and Android." There are several notes that the individual will have to "understand and embrace the conceptual models, constraints and affordances of the mobile/social design environment", which would include "Email & SMS, Facebook, Google+, Twitter".
Ozzie left Microsoft in October 2010 and hinted that he may be looking at some opportunities to realize a "post-PC world". Ozzie, recently updated his blog earlier this week with some tweaks, but no new posts. In six years, Ozzie only posted to his blog twice - when he announced his resignation from Microsoft in 2010 and when his previous company, Groove, was acquired by Microsoft in 2005.
Former Groove employee here. After years of working on and helping to QA ("Groovefests," or mandatory unpaid overtime) a product I truly believed in -- Groove -- Ray Ozzie downsized the company in order to prep it for sale to Microsoft, and then proceeded to zero out all the common options of Groove stock so that peon employees like me ended up with $0.00 for all our years of hard work on a product that was novel in its time. Ray and his board of directors, of course, made out like bandits, with multi-million dollar payouts and high-level jobs at Microsoft. Groove employees who actually purchased their options with cold, hard cash paid thousands of dollars for what amounted in the end to literally nothing. Nothing.
ROFL.........
That's one way of saying how much work experience you have.. LOL
My thought exactly. The iPad is just about 2 years old, Android about 3 years (depending on how you count).
Former Groove employee here. After years of working on and helping to QA ("Groovefests," or mandatory unpaid overtime) a product I truly believed in -- Groove -- Ray Ozzie downsized the company in order to prep it for sale to Microsoft, and then proceeded to zero out all the common options of Groove stock so that peon employees like me ended up with $0.00 for all our years of hard work on a product that was novel in its time. Ray and his board of directors, of course, made out like bandits, with multi-million dollar payouts and high-level jobs at Microsoft. Groove employees who actually purchased their options with cold, hard cash paid thousands of dollars for what amounted in the end to literally nothing. Nothing.
i phone, and previous to that were palm pilots. if im not mistaken you could have close to 15 years of mobile app experience at this point, if thats all you did.
His hour long speech had absolutely no point, no direction, no content. He just reminisced about what happened in the computer industry. He meandered in front of +20K employees. He tossed out odd random phrases like "cookie licker" that made audience murmur "what is he talking about".
His attempt to instill early confidence in a post-Bill Microsoft was a failure. I actually lost some faith in the leadership that day. Worse, that hour is the only time at any Microsoft Company Meeting that I wanted the time back and an apology.
I guess you can add to the patent trolling that's going around and sue?