Money flowed into workforce-as-a-service platforms, and work chat technologies continued their incursion on already-aging social media collaboration tools. Will Microsoft split itself up to better exploit these trends? Read more »
Steve Ballmer has stepped down from Microsoft’s board, just about six months after Satya Nadella’s ascent into the CEO role. Considering that Nadella has scrapped Ballmer’s vision for Microsoft as a… 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 »
At this year’s annual Cisco Live summit, John Chambers tried to draw attention to the difficulties of other entrenched IT giants — like IBM and HP — in an attempt to… Read more »
The Nokia deal is done. Microsoft now owns the mobile phone part of the pioneering Finnish communications company that famously missed the transition to touch and watched its fortunes crumble. Back… Read more »
Satya Nadella is continuing his rapid reconfiguration of the partly reorganized Microsoft he had handed to him a few months ago, most importantly making Scott Guthrie EVP of Cloud and Enterprise,… Read more »
There are a number of reasons that I follow the goings on at Microsoft very closely. First of all, as an analyst tracking work technologies I am interested in the direction… Read more »
The new CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has taken the next step in consolidating power to a small Senior Leadership Team (SLT). He has also made it clear that he is… Read more »