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Windows Mobile bleeds market share

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:42:10 +0000

The Gartner Group reported last week that the almost meteoric rise of the iPhone and the longer steady rise of the RIM Blackberry have been largely at the expense of Microsoft and their Windows Mobile platform.

Both the [...]

Nvidia complains about Intel tactics

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:30:33 +0000

Nvidia has joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in complaining loudly about the tactics Intel uses to sell its products, especially the strong-arm bundling of video chips with CPUs.

Intel dominates the PC CPU market, which is the area [...]

Los Angeles chooses Gmail over Microsoft Exchange

Dave Jeyes — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:04:56 +0000

The City of Los Angeles has decided that its 30,000 employees will “Go Google,” as the city has selected Gmail as its new email system. This decision might spell a troubling trend for [...]

Carl Icahn leaves the Yahoo board

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:04:28 +0000

Carl Icahn, who led a stockholder revolt at Yahoo aimed at taking over the board of directors, changing the management team, and selling to Microsoft, has resigned from the Yahoo board.

Depending on the point of [...]

Microsoft begins selling computers in its online store in celebration of Windows 7

Sean P. Aune — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:09:07 +0000

In a surprise move that no one saw coming, Microsoft has begun selling computers in its online store.

It seems that today’s launch of Windows 7 wasn’t the only big announcement for the company [...]

Intel and AMD prepare to do battle again

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:38:16 +0000

Intel and AMD are forming battle lines for another round of processor warfare, each warming up to win the battle of the new, slimmer laptops to be managed by Windows 7.

Laptop [...]

Microsoft’s Sidekick cloud outage gets worse

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:18:58 +0000

Microsoft’s cleverly named “software plus services” strategy would probably work better with users if their cloud computing centers would stop turning into smoke and mirrors.

A week or so ago, Microsoft’s Danger server farm, which holds [...]

Microsoft seeks more social networking involvement

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:07:09 +0000

Unsatisfied with their corporate involvement in social networking, Microsoft has created a brand new research group intended to take the company to social places that they have never gone before.

The new group will be known [...]

Ad-supported Office 2010 Starter is a downgrade from Microsoft Works

Dave Jeyes — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:55:53 +0000

Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Edition will begin shipping on new PCs with an ad-supported revenue model until a user buys a key to the full version. This new strategy offers the [...]

Microsoft or Google deal could monetize Twitter without ads

Dave Jeyes — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:21:16 +0000

There’s a rumor afoot that Twitter is talking to both Microsoft and Google about licensing the full Twitter feed for real-time search. If so, it could mean that the company starts making money [...]