Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, has started a new group focused on social computing.
The Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, which Ozzie announced Thursday morning, comprises about 80 people from Microsoft's Creative Systems Group, Rich Media Labs and Startup Labs – the last of which is located in Cambridge, Mass. Fourteen-year Microsoft veteran Lili Cheng will run FUSE Labs from Redmond.
The PI Blog Post includes a portion of the memo Ray Ozzie sent to employees.
Myriad scenarios involving the notion of 'social' have now gone far beyond communications and collaboration and are transforming experiences that are key to our customers and key to our business, in leisure & entertainment; productivity & teamwork; experiences extending how we use the OS itself.
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FUSE Labs will bring more coherence and capability to those advanced development projects where they're already actively collaborating with product groups to help them succeed with 'leapfrog' efforts. Working closely with (Microsoft Research) and across our divisions, the lab will prioritize efforts where its capabilities can be applied to areas where the company's extant missions, structures, tempo or risk might otherwise cause us to miss a material threat or opportunity.
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