Nadella’s Microsoft is such a different beast from the old and bad days. The newest wrinkle comes in the form of an announcement by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the… Read more »
Like the iPod and iPhone, the HoloLens represents an inspiring connection of hardware and software that will take its company in a new direction. But unlike Apple’s immense successes, Microsoft is… Read more »
Windows and Office, locked at the hip, drove Microsoft’s hugely profitable software business. Now the company is starting to decouple the dynamic duo. Read more »
Number crunching leads to some not too surprising results for Microsoft’s Surface, which is increasingly looking like a boat anchor, pulling the company down. The company’s 8-K statement filed with the… Read more »
Two very different companies — Apple and Microsoft — posted financial results this week. Apple is clearly the iPhone company, selling 35.2 million iPhones in the quarter ending 28 June, a… Read more »
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella let the other shoe drop last week. Nadella wrote a long, and aspirational memo on the previous week that ostensibly made a case for focus in Microsoft’s plans without… Read more »
Last week we witnessed the reorienting of two giant work technology players — Amazon and Microsoft — with enormous impacts for the industry, and the marketplace. Amazon announced Zocalo, its entry… 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 »
Microsoft is still the dominant figure in the office/productivity tool sector, despite the efforts like Google Docs and Apple iCloud, and innovations like Box Notes and Quip (see Taking another look at Quip,… Read more »
Nokia’s handset sales are flagging as Microsoft closes its acquisition of the manufacturer, and Windows Phone has recently lost market share in major markets such as the U.S. and China. But… Read more »