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.
Amazon Web Services’ new file-sharing service might be bad news for for companies like Box and Dropbox, but if they’re hurt they’ll only be collateral damage. The real targets are cloud… Read more »
By purchasing the business continuity company, Microsoft can merge InMage’s data recovery technology into its own Azure Site Recovery service that allows for folks to migrate on-premise data to the Azure… Read more »
Caribbean operator Digicel is the latest carrier to take exception to its customers trading its voice services for OTT apps. It’s trying to block VoIP, but Viber is still getting through. Read more »
Chinese media, which tend to toe the government line, have already cast aspersions on Microsoft’s Windows 8, IBM’s servers and pretty much the entire U.S. tech industry. Read more »
I’m involved in writing a Gigaom Research Roadmap on what I call the distributed core. File sync-and-share has rapidly moved from a consumer convenience to the core element of a distributed computing architecture… Read more »
Satya Nadella has come out with his own vision statement for Microsoft, one that is distinctly oppositional to the ‘Devices and Services’ worldview that Steve Ballmer first proposed in late 2012… Read more »
Amazon’s new document-sharing service Zocalo has the potential to attract a new set of customers who have never considered using the public cloud. Read more »
Companies that leverage cloud will collect hundreds of cloud services, and these services will become parts of mission-critical applications. As we discussed last week, this situation creates the need to identify… Read more »
A handful of technology companies big and small have vowed to support and contribute to Kubernetes, Google’s open source technology for managing Docker containers. That’s a big boon for portability in… Read more »