Tag Archive | "Microsoft"
Roger McNamee: Not excited about Android, says Apple is killing the world wide web – in a good way
You might recognize Roger McNamee as the angel investor who invested heavily in Palm and came up with this ludicrous prediction back in March of 2009: You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft: Protecting the Windows monopoly at all costs
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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Microsoft’s tablet strategy remains in shambles. The HP Slate was essentially a bust on arrival, only to be followed up by the news that HP was abandoning Microsoft altogether in light of its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and its heralded WebOS. So what’s Microsoft to do? It’s not working on an iOS style version [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft debates overzealous retail expansion; Ballmer convinced “to hold back”
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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One of the integral components of Apple’s resurgence under Steve Jobs has been the company’s retail strategy. Though the ubiquity of Apple retail stores may make it easy to forget, it really wasn’t all that long ago that Apple products were hard to find, and often displayed haphazardly in stores like CompUSA and Office Depot where store [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt garner high CEO approval ratings, Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz not so much
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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An anonymous survey taken by Glassdoor.com recently compared CEO approval ratings in 2011 against approval ratings from 2010.
Continue reading...IDC predicts Windows Phone 7 marketshare will surpass iOS marketshare by 2015
Monday, April 4, 2011
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Microsoft was late to the smartphone party, and their Windows Phone 7 offering has seen some less than stellar success, even in the context of its late entrance into an already mature market. Last week, the research firm IDC issued a report covering worldwide smartphone marketshare data for 2011. The report found that in 2011, Android’s [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft hires linguist Ronald Butters to attack Apple’s “app store” trademark claim
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Apple and Microsoft’s dispute over Apple’s efforts to trademark the term app store continues to get more absurd. Microsoft is of course challenging the trademark on the grounds that the phrase app store is merely a generic designation. In one of its filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Apple argued that generic terms can [...]
Continue reading...Parks and Recreation plugs Microsoft
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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The most recent episode of Parks and Recreation: “Camping” included a not so subliminal Microsoft pitch. Just to make sure you get it, they included sticky notes almost exactly in the logo color pattern. If only it helped our Leslie Knope come up with a killer idea. In the real world you can’t buy a [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft research and strategy officer Craig Mundie not sure the tablet market has staying power
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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It’s an interesting and counter-intuitive strategy. Reference a popular product that your company simply can’t compete with and question the staying power of said product. It’s an easy strategy, no doubt, and is a heck of a lot easier than actually delivering a compelling product yourself. And that’s apparently the mindset over in Redmond these [...]
Continue reading...Back when Microsoft product launches had flair [Video]
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when Microsoft events were huge mainstream affairs. Nowhere was this more apparent than with the momentous launch of Windows 95 which featured the involvement of Jay Leno and the licensing of the famous Rolling Stones song Start Me Up. While Windows 95 was a yawner for [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft killing the Zune due to dwindling demand
Monday, March 14, 2011
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After years of trying to carve out a niche in the MP3 player market, Microsoft is killing its Zune media player after the device failed to gain any mainstream traction. Of course, it didn’t help that Microsoft came along years after the market was already monopolized by Apple.
Continue reading...The implications of Microsoft’s partnership with Kayak
Friday, March 11, 2011
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Microsoft recently struck a deal whereby travel results on Bing will be powered by KAYAK, a niche travel-centric search engine that helps users find attractive deals for flights, hotels, cruises, and rental cars by scouring the net and finding the best possible deals from an assortment of sites. It’s a useful travel booking search aggregate, [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Kinect confirmed as fastest selling consumer electronic device in history
Thursday, March 10, 2011
To date, Apple has sold over 14.8 million iPads, a staggering figure that makes Apple’s tablet device one of the fastest selling consumer electronic devices of all time. By way of comparison, the iPhone moved 6.1 million units in the first 12 months after its initial release while the Sony PSP moved 14.5 million units.
Continue reading...Microsoft still struggling to come up with a tablet to compete with the iPad
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Yahoo reports that Microsoft is working hard on its efforts to port Windows to ARM chips so that it can deliver a tablet OS with decent battery life and a new UI, hopefully by June. But with developers still not in the mix with respect to app development, the report notes Microsoft most likely won’t [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft offers employees 70%-cut to code apps for Windows Phone 7
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
It’s no secret that Microsoft is desperately trying to become a third player in what has clearly become a two-man race between Apple and Google. With the release of Windows Phone 7 and a huge advertising campaign, coupled of course with Redmond’s recent deal with Nokia, Microsoft is pulling out all the stops. But it [...]
Continue reading...What it’s like working at Microsoft
Monday, February 28, 2011
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Windows development manager Richard G Russel has an extremely interesting post up detailing what its like being a coder at Microsoft on a day to day basis. I quite often see assumptions on the inter-tubes that writing software at Microsoft is a mind-numbingly boring, tedious, manual, excruciating, soul-crushing bureaucratic exercise. This couldn’t be further from [...]
Continue reading...What Google’s VIc Gundotra thinks about the Nokia/Microsoft partnership
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Here’s what Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra thinks about Nokia’s decision to hitch its wagon to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS. Two turkeys do not make an Eagle. Nice.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
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