Ray Ozzie's was recently dubbed Chief Software Architect (CSA) when Bill Gates announced his intent to step away from a more active role in Microsoft to increase his involvement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It didn't take him long to make his first major pronouncement. Ironically, shortly before the 25th birthday of the IBM Personal Computer (PC), Mr. Ozzie declared the end of the age of the PC.

I can't help but recall a scene from Monty Python's, "The Holy Grail," in which the Dead Collector is collecting a rather frail looking person who is repeatedly insisting, in that lovely thick Cockney accent, "I'm not dead, yet."

To be fair, Mr. Ozzie was not actually declaring the PC dead. Rather, he was signaling a change in the focus at Microsoft: from PC-based to network-based. Historically, Microsoft has made the majority of its revenue on its operating system, office suite, and the Xbox. Now Mr. Ozzie envisions a future focused on Internet services. Nice to see Microsoft is paying attention to what's already happening on the network. The story was report by the Financial Times and can be reviewed here.