Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Is Apple in trouble?

I was reading this great post from Scoble: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love? « Scobleizer which was spot-on, but for some reason it got me thinking about Apple instead of Microsoft. I think Apple is in serious trouble. The Amazon digital download store is much better than the iTunes store. Not the design or [...]

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Microsoft buys itself a Swedish Standard – Updated

It looks like the Swedish Standards Committee was going to vote “no, with comments” on Microsoft’s OOXML proposal. Then, in the 3 days before the vote, 24 new companies paid the fees to join the committee. The result being that the standard was passed. Of those 24 companies, 18 of them were Microsoft Gold Certified [...]

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Correcting the record on Microsoft’s foray into Open Source

Microsoft is making big headlines in their announcement that they are releasing some technology as Open Source… Why Microsoft Is Going Open Source | Linux Journal No one would have believed me if I had said five years ago that Microsoft would have a page on its Web site called “Open Source at Microsoft” with [...]

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Microsoft Expands in Canada Amid U.S. Visa Crunch

Microsoft Expands in Canada Amid U.S. Visa Crunch Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it will open a software development center in Vancouver, giving it a place to employ skilled workers snagged by U.S. immigration quotas. It may signal the start of a new hiring trend, with other U.S. high-tech firms following in Microsofts footsteps to [...]

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Interesting post on life at Google vs Microsoft from a individual contributor perspective

Life at Google – The Microsoftie Perspective « Just Say “No” To Google The comments are freaky. MS folks piling on this person which seems kind of stupid, because this reads like a love letter to life at Microsoft if I ever read one. I’d like to see this person follow up with a second [...]

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Sarcastic Gamer’s Microsoft Surface Parody

ok, you’ve probably seen it already, but this is pretty funny.

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Does virtualization herald the end of the platform war?

I was reading Marc Andreesen’s new blog and I came across this quote: Virtualization — in the form of software like Parallels and VMWare Fusion — lets you deal with an individual operating system as if it were an application. from blog.pmarca.com: At long last, switching back to Mac and I realized that since Apple [...]

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Bill and Steve together again on the D stage

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

good microsoft parody ad

Friday, May 11th, 2007

The RIA battle heats up

Not content to let Adobe and Microsoft slug it out, Java and Firefox decide to enter the fray. APC: Firefox to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight CNET: Schwartz: JavaFX can take on Flash I don’t think that this will amount to more than a distraction. JavaFX seems a bit like a mess. Reading over [...]