Yesterday, Microsoft created a joint venture with Barnes & Noble. The new company, named — I’m not kidding — NewCo, will own and operate Nook, the eReader that Barnes and Noble sells to compete with Amazon’s Kindle (there are others, but…
In their continuing effort to stave off irrelevancy, Microsoft keeps branching into new businesses. The beast from Redmond will never again see the same kind of dominance they enjoyed with Windows and Office, but lately they’re making some…
Ever notice you almost never hear about marketing and Microsoft? The reason is simple: Microsoft doesn’t need to “sell” anything. Businesses and people buy Windows because it’s Windows, buy Microsoft Office for the same reason, and…
I’m Old. Sometimes that gets in the way, but mostly it affords me insight and the ability to be pragmatic about some of what happens in front of me while younger eyes might lose track of reality.
When I wrote a few weeks ago about Microsoft’s cool new battery technology, I was thinking that the beast from Redmond had headed down a new road. They’re actually giving the technology away under some circumstances, and mundane…
What do you do when you’ve fallen from being the most important desktop-computer software company in the world to an also-ran with nothing new of any importance for over a decade?
What kind of computer do you use? Are your files all stored on a hard drive in that computer, on a network drive, or off in the cloud somewhere? What software do you like?
Why is it that the more successful a company becomes, the less able it is to manage that success? Is success the business change that inevitably will ruin your business?
Microsoft loves us. How much? They created Bing, the search engine we now know is officially better than Google.
OK, so the truth here is that ten out of fifteen people in a study commissioned by Microsoft thought so. The data may…
