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 »
It’s not only Microsoft salaried employees who have to worry about their jobs. Contractors and consultants also face new restrictions, according to a Geekwire report. Read more »
Depending on how you define Microsoft’s new “core” areas, employees in Qi Lu’s or Scott Guthrie’s groups are relatively safe. Those working on Windows client stuff? Maybe not. Read more »
Wow. Just wow. The long-reported Microsoft job cuts are here and they are deeper than expected. Microsoft will eliminate 18,000 jobs over the next year and consolidate its phone efforts. 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 »
Speak into the mic: The latest Edward Snowden revelations about the tremendous scope of NSA data collection on ordinary Americans (e.g. non targets) is really not news. The week in cloud… 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 »