Gates's successor has tough act to follow at Microsoft

Microsoft's problems are now Ray Ozzie's problems. In stepping into Bill Gates's role as the chief software architect for the world's largest software company, the soft-spoken Massachusetts technology developer is inheriting a hornet's nest of challenges, ranging from sweeping changes in the way computer software is packaged and delivered to the simple fact that he's not Bill. (Full article: 822 words)

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