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Must be cool in Hell this time of year
The Street, home to dubious analysts like Jim Cramer and Scott Moritz recently put out their list compiling the top 10 most innovative companies of 2010. So who topped the charts – Apple? Google? Some obscure technology company with an ultra-cool product? Negative on all counts. Why the most innovative company in 2010, according to […]
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
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When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone, he explained that Apple was trying to create a smartphone that would leapfrog the competition by at least 5 years. Given that Android has made impressive strides as of late, the 5 year head-start afforded to Apple by the iPhone might be a bit generous, but there’s no […]
Continue reading...Microsoft to unveil new tablet devices at CES 2011, one with slideout keyboard
Monday, December 13, 2010
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Bill Gates has long been a champion of tablet computing, yet as luck would have it, and as is often the case, the market for tablet computing never really took off until Apple decided to throw its hat into the ring. Over the past decade, Microsoft’s tablet initiatives have been overwhelmingly lackluster, but the Redmond-based […]
Continue reading...Microsoft is a better stock buy than Apple? Puhleeze
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
I thought Motley Fool was supposed to be a source of good investment advice, but if this article from Chris Baines is any indication, MF readers might as well divest immediately and either put their money under their mattresses or invest in magic beans. Baines attempts, quite unsuccessfully, to articulate why Microsoft is a better […]
Continue reading...Even on Black Friday, Microsoft’s retail stores can’t compete with Apple
Monday, November 29, 2010
Looking to capitalize, err, emulate, the success of Apple’s retail stores, Microsoft up and decided to create its own retail stores and place them in high-traffic mall areas, sometimes right across the way from an Apple store. Microsoft’s retail initiative borrows heavily from Apple, from the architectural design to the employees wearing brightly colored shirts, […]
Continue reading...Microsoft battles software pirates across the globe
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The scene: Los Reyes, Mexico. The participants: 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents about to embark on a raid. So begins a tantalizing piece from the New York Times detailing Microsoft’s efforts, at home and abroad, to curtail software piracy. The police reached the house undetected, barreled in and found rooms crammed with about 50 […]
Continue reading...Was the Windows Phone 7 launch a bust?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Windows Phone 7 was and is Microsoft’s last chance to catch up with the big boys that are Apple and Google in the smartphone race. A few years in the making, and sporting a brand new interface, Microsoft is throwing nearly a billion dollars worth of advertising behind Windows Phone 7 to help it hit […]
Continue reading...A departing Microsoft employee reflects back on his time in Redmond
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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I’ve never heard of Philip Su, but I’m a fan. A former Microsoft engineer who recently decided to leave Redmond for the greener pastures of Facebook recently posted an amalgamation of thoughts and lessons learned from his time at Microsoft and it’s well worth a read. On getting promoted: If you consistently deliver what the […]
Continue reading...Is Steve Ballmer delusional?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may not be the best in the biz, but the more we see of him, we kinda like the guy. That said, his take on Apple and the tech industry is often pretty skewed, if not downright delusional. To wit, here’s Ballmer talking about Windows Phone 7 and the value people […]
Continue reading...Microsoft and Adobe CEO’s meet to discuss how to take on Apple and possible acquisition
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Well well well, what do we have here. Adobe and Microsoft joining forces perhaps? The New York Times reports: Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, recently showed up with a small entourage of deputies at Adobe’s corporate offices in San Francisco to hold a secret meeting with Adobe’s chief executive, Shantanu Narayen. The meeting, which […]
Continue reading...Goldman Sachs takes Microsoft off of their “buy list”, lowers stock target down to $28
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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With Windows Phone 7 devices set to hit the market in just a short while, it’s do or die time for Microsoft and their efforts to re-establish a foothold in a smartphone market where they now find themselves on the outside looking in. But even so, Microsoft’s revenues and profits continue to grow. Apparently, though, […]
Continue reading...Upcoming Microsoft Store at Mall of America is huge, and located directly across from an Apple Store
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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It’s hard to deny that Microsoft’s retail initiative borrows/relies/steals heavily from Apple’s own line of retail stores – from the layout, to the “answer bar”, right down to the materials used. And now apparently Microsoft is creepin’ in on Apple’s retail space in the Mall of America. Check out the video below and peep Microsoft’s […]
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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