Why Microsoft’s Zune is Still Failing — RoughlyDrafted Magazine from a comment The recent WSJ electronics buying poll got even better after this article appeared. In one of the most extraordinary developments in the history of retailing the zune managed to zoom at the last minute from 0% to 24%. More than 144,000 enthusiastic Zune [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ok, you’ve probably seen it already, but this is pretty funny.
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 [...]
