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 »
File sync-and-share platforms are remedying a defect in today’s operating systems, which have yet to implement virtual distributed file systems. 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 »
After a week of assimilating Apple’s tour-de-force at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference last week, a long list of market watchers are saying that the event — and the design and development… Read more »
Remember when Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, called Microsoft a ‘disaster’ last September at Techcrunch, and said that Bill Gates should return as CEO? And then in January this year, at… Read more »
Ubiquitous connectivity, file sync-and-share, and a new generation of office apps continued to disrupt the modern workforce during the first quarter. Read more »
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO, is pushing hard to change the way that the tech behemoth thinks about the world and Microsoft’s place in it. He is actively moving the company… Read more »
Cortana, Microsoft’s clone of Apple’s Siri, got a lot of the attention and ink during last week’s Build conference, but the real news was something more foundational, and economic. Microsoft showed… Read more »
I wrote the other other day that Microsoft’s Satya Nadella seems to have turned the corner on a new price strategy for Windows and Office: he’s heading towards free (see Microsoft accepts… Read more »