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  • Microsoft in Yahoo! saga

    Microsoft in Yahoo! saga Re/code has an interesting article on how the Microsoft in Yahoo! saga continues to influence the sell off of Yahoo! assets by investing money in whichever bid coalition wins. This feels like a riff on Yahoo!’s history over the past six years. Careful balancing act for Microsoft The 2010 aggressive bid…

  • Microsoft Office + more news

    Google hunts down Microsoft Office | Techeye – Google’s move is a big one but indicative of how desperate Google needs to diversity from its current online ad based model into subscription software (like Microsoft Office 365)for the enterprise Google and Yahoo sign search partnership – San Jose Mercury News – interesting because Yahoo! gets around the…

  • Microsoft Windows event

    I’ve been in-and-out of meetings that prevented me from reflecting fully on the Microsoft Windows 10 event of October 7, 2015. Microsoft put a lot of content out there which is worthwhile picking through. I have put these items in the order that they occur to me rather than an order of importance. Microsoft Windows…

  • The Nokia Microsoft Post

    Nokia Microsoft deal In the week since the news broke my thoughts on the acquisition by Microsoft of Nokia’s device business have slowly coalesced into the notes that make up this post. The two Nokia’s The acquisition is a tale of two businesses, the first business is a business services, cloud computing and network hardware…

  • Microsoft Surface

    Some thoughts on the implications of the Microsoft Surface launch: Microsoft and tablets I found the Microsoft a curious device full of interesting design choices. It was interesting because it seemed to be defined by what it wasn’t. The device was a world way from the clunky tablet keyboard combos by the likes of Fujitsu…

  • Carol Bartz + Microsoft Excel

    Carol Bartz I started thinking about this post when I was reading Bob Cringely’s excellent analysis of Carol Bartz tenure at Yahoo!. I am not going to add my full analysis here but instead pull on a strand that highlights problems that exist at a number of internet companies and certainly existed at Yahoo! when…

  • Microsoft IE + other news

    Microsoft IE It is hard to explain how dominant Microsoft IE or Internet Explorer was for online access. For years Microsoft IE was the tip of a range of technologies that integrated with online experiences that sustained Windows dominance. I was a late adapter to online banking since for years my bank required the use…

  • Microsoft alternatives + more news

    Microsoft alternatives EU stumbles on buying Microsoft alternatives – The European Commission, a thorn in Microsoft’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) side for its antitrust campaigns against the software giant, is falling short in its own internal attempt to promote Microsoft alternatives – this isn’t surprising. The open source community have failed with desktop…

  • Microsoft Longhorn

    Microsoft Longhorn – As you may have seen over the past few days parts of the American media seem to think that the launch of Microsoft’s new operating system is turning into a bigger disaster than the war against terror. They’re wrong for two reasons: – The war against terror is majorly messed up because…