The Daily Caller makes the argument that Microsoft’s continued presence in the search business is actually helping Google by taking the focus off their monopoly position and anti-competitive practices.
Microsoft may no longer be the biggest show in tech, but they’re still a large company that hires a lot of people. It’s just that more and more of them are hired from foreign countries via H-1B visas. This is … Read More
Windows Phone 8 may be great, but Microsoft is totally blowing the launch. They can’t afford to. Nokia hasn’t exactly set the market on fire with its Lumia line, which actually isn’t much of an issue since WP8 won’t run … Read More
It’s taken me some time to figure out what I wanted to say about this due to the complexity of both the case and its repercussions. I don’t think I’m ready to predict what’s going to happen in the smartphone … Read More
I’m sure Motorola employees were looking over their shoulders when the Google acquisition was announced but they probably didn’t imagine how bad the cuts would be. Google is definitely following in Apple’s footsteps in becoming a hardware company (as is … Read More
With the possible exception of the iPhone (which is highly controlled by Apple), the mobile phone carriers are the biggest threat to innovation, controlling which phones get released and who gets software upgrades (if any). I say the possible exception … Read More
Vanity Fair received an amazing level of access to Microsoft’s internal documents along with dozens of employees to publish Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant. While Steve Ballmer’s picture leads the article, … Read More
Microsoft is really trying to get app developers to embrace their Metro interface to the point they’re pulling the free development tools for Windows 8 desktop apps. Windows 8 is intended to be an identical experience whether on a desktop … Read More
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