Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.
A couple of cloud things happened this week. Microsoft announced a sales increased due largely to cloud-based technology, and AWS’s sales were slightly off. Some of the better coverage from Gigaom’s… Read more »
People always ask me where they can buy a smart home. The answer shows how far the industry needs to come if it wants to serve mainstream consumers. Read more »
Cloud vendors need to operate data centers in a diverse range of locations. How does they stack up to each other in terms of geographies, and why is that important? Read more »
The problem for tablet makers is that the power to implement some of the most compelling potential use cases for the devices is not in their hands. Read more »
AWS doesn’t have the public cloud to itself anymore. It faces two gigantic competitors trying to poach reference customers and growing adoption of hybrid cloud. Read more »
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team released a preview HTML5 version of Settlers of Catan that works on almost every modern device — from Windows Phone to iPads and desktop computers. Read more »
Satya Nadella’s massive reorganization is more expansive than just cutting former Nokia employees. Yesterday, David Sacks, the founder and former CEO of Yammer, tweeted that he was leaving Microsoft. David was… Read more »
Censorship is always bad, right? Not to many people around our connected globe, and there is sometimes validity to their views. Unfortunately the tension between those views places a profound and… Read more »