Posts tagged Microsoft
US Antitrust Chief makes noises about Google
Feb 24th
Okay, I admit this is a week old. In my defense its been a pretty busy week since I first saw it on Bloomberg and wanted to discuss it. The draft has been screaming at me every time I open the blog. However, age doesn’t make it less relevant. In fact, its one of those…
Google’s Monopoly not a bad thing
Feb 11th
Anyone familiar with this blog and the things I say here will be familiar with my take on the search engine wars that have supposedly been going on since Microsoft decided to take on Google and Yahoo! a few years back. But what I find interesting is that people are still surprised by what they’re…
Google’s Gmail catching up to Hotmail
Feb 9th
I have maintained for 5 or so years now that Gmail is by far the best email manager available today. It is, without any doubt, the one thing that brought me back to email after I had all but given up on it. Now we find that I’m not the only one to think so.…
Microsoft rumoured to release new Smartphone
Feb 7th
With the confirmation that the Zune team has been merged into the Windows Mobile team at Microsoft, new rumours are swirling about that Microsoft themselves will announce they are entering the Smartphone business at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in 2 weeks with a Microsoft branded phone. Not content merely to provide the platform…
Windows 7 keys for all
Jan 11th
I got my product key for the Windows 7 beta program!!! Very happy. For those of you that are also interested in trying out the beta, good news. Due to an enormous surge in demand, the download experience was not ideal so we listened and took the necessary steps to ensure a good experience. We…
Still waiting…
Jan 10th
For a company that is claiming to be all about Cloud Computing in the future, and is finally starting to look at web platforms as a viable medium for software development and implementation, Microsoft really knows how to screw up a web launch of a product. Today was supposed to be the day you could…
Opinion: Googles Office Suite plans
Jun 11th
The worldwide market for evil is stratospheric, and Google is uniquely positioned to take advantage of it. They’ve made some halting inroads in China, but economists — many of whom are themselves evil — estimate that if Google abandoned its inefficient policy completely, it could capture 38 percent of the evil market. That’s more than…