Microsoft is making a big investment in innovation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has a front page story about Microsoft's new Concept Development Center led by Reed Sturtevant. Reed was recruited by Ray Ozzie and his brother Jack to build the new lab.

The Boston Globe story says;

Boston software legend Ray Ozzie replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft's chief software architect in 2006. Ozzie has been pushing for a transition from the desktop software that accounts for the bulk of its revenue to the Internet services that are the wave of the future.

"Microsoft is making a big investment in Massachusetts," said Reed Sturtevant, 51, the director of the Boston Concept Development Center, who worked with Ozzie in the 1980s at Lotus Development Corp. and joined Microsoft last fall. He's spent most of his time so far recruiting. "There's a huge amount of talent in Boston," he said, "and the question is, how do you bring new talent into Microsoft?"

Microsoft's presence in Massachusetts is growing with the acquisitions of Groove Networks, Softricity, and Danger Inc. Microsoft is also growing internal product groups in the Boston area and consolidating many of the groups at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge.

Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes, and founder of Groove Networks, has lived and worked in the Boston area most of his life and wants to see Microsoft build a much larger presence over time.