<p>Ray Ozzie hasn't been in the news much since late 2010, when he left Microsoft after it became clear he was never going to become the company's chief executive.</p><p>Now he's joining the board of Hewlett-Packard, the company announced today.</p><p>Until his 2010 departure from Redmond, Ozzie had spent several years as Microsoft's chief software architect, a role that founder Bill Gates held until that point. Ozzie came to Microsoft through the company's $150 million acquisition of Groove Networks, which Ozzie founded, in 2005. Groove later became Microsoft SharePoint Workspace, which has since been discontinued. (Correction: Ed Bott and Romit Mehta informed me that SharePoint Workspace lives on as SkyDrive Pro, a file-syncing and file-sharing service, and that the executable is even named groove.exe.)</p><p>Before Groove, Ozzie was one of the key architects of Lotus Notes, one of the most successful software packages of the client-server era. It was powerful and flexible, but also huge, bloated, and prone to all kinds of problems interoperating with Internet services. (The last time I wrote about Lotus Notes, which is now owned by IBM, I figured it was all but dead, but several angry Notes developers contacted me to say how great it still is. Whatever. I'm just glad I don't have to use it any more and neither do most of the people I know, a big change from the 1990s.)</p><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/15/hp-ray-ozzie/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/07/15/hp-adds-microsoft-visionary-ray-ozzie.html">HP adds Microsoft visionary Ray Ozzie to its board of directors</a> (Silicon Valley Business Journal)</p><p><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/07/15/hps-board-of-directors-gets-some-new-blood.aspx">HP's Board of Directors Gets Some New Blood</a> (Motley Fool)</p><p><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2282477/hp-appoints-exmicrosoft-software-architect-ray-ozzie-to-its-board">HP appoints ex-Microsoft software architect Ray Ozzie to its board</a> (Inquirer)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dbUNLTuaHfsG-yMV9Nuxq4ybXL61M&ned=us">58 additional articles.</a></p>