Can Microsoft figure out how to market Windows RT? I am skeptical. While the critics focus on facts .. the lack of a developing app market, MS puny $100 “incentive” to app developeers, decisions by hardware makers not to make ARM based machines … I am more impressed by Microsoft&[...]
Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
May 7th, 2013 - 4:06 am § in Misc.
As Windows RT doubts mount, Microsoft exec claims ‘bright future’ for OS
April 18th, 2013 - 4:09 am § in The Ave Scene
APPLESAUCE: Well … Microsoft’s surface pioneered the hybrid tablet … is this leading to Apple taking the bait?
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April 9th, 2013 - 8:11 am § in Misc.
Is Balmer Killing the Surface?
Balmer Blunders On …A Fellow Surface User Closes His Blog It’s been a fun ride I started his blog largely as an experiment, and largely with the hope that Microsoft would truly make a commitment to something different. I had a blast working on this blog and getting involved in the Microsof[...]
March 31st, 2013 - 10:39 pm § in Misc.
Is Google Trying to Kill the Microsoft Surface?
I got a strange pop up today from the Mail app .. saying I needed to log into gmail! Thinking this was a phish, I called the MS store. They tell me that Gmail calendar and contacts can no longer synch with the Win 8 environment. This is a bummer! Maybe a Surface kiss of […][...]
February 1st, 2013 - 12:45 pm § in The Ave Scene
More bad Steve Balmer Stuff
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world’s largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges his authority, claims a former senior executive who has written a book about [...]
January 30th, 2013 - 7:28 am § in Misc.
Applesauce: Cox and Balmer
Yesterday morning, Apple unveiled its latest iPad — a sort of ho hum competitor for Microsoft’s Surface Pro .. being released later this week — four days from now. So Mr. Cox is not doing the Jobs act .., no stagecraft this time. While Mr, Balmer is making his bet that MS can mak[...]
January 13th, 2013 - 1:57 pm § in Misc.
Balmer: Office Depot’s Ad
Does Steve Balmer watch TV? Office Depot is offering an ad that he ought to see! The ad does a great job of demoing Windows 8 and the Surface … WITHOUT naming Microsoft, Windows OR the Surface! The machines they show are all Win 8 BUT the only company mentioned is APPLE![...]
January 8th, 2013 - 10:33 am § in The Ave Scene
CES: Balmer NEEDS to hire someone else to impersonate himself
Qualcomm’s opening keynote today started with three young actors of the age that’s “born mobile” — those whose phones give them “the entire world in our hand.” Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs is only the third person to fill the evening spot before th[...]
January 7th, 2013 - 12:28 am § in The Ave Scene
Windows 8 Gets a BIG Customer
BUT: Despite some launch hiccups with Windows 8 and its related devices, Microsoft has received a smashing bit of news in the form of a new $617 million licensing agreement that will bring the fledgeling OS to 75 percent of US DoD personnel. The deal also includes Office 2013 and Sharepoint 2013 Ent[...]
MS needs some applesauce on its Surface!
Niw that I have a Microsoft Surfce, I am pretty ticked off about the ads for the thing. The ads are dumb! MS seems to have two sort sf ads out there … one that may really be for pastel seltzer water and one some kind of thin and alpha shaped desk toy. It is […][...]