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Google is Microsoft's 'wake-up call'
Created: 10/30/2007
Video description: At the Vortex 2005 conference in San Francisco, Ray Ozzie, one of Microsoft's chief technical officers, tells business author Geoffrey Moore that Google's success is a "very big deal" for Redmond and has forced the software giant to reflect on its business model.

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