I have a habit of sticking up for the big boys sometimes on this blog. This post is another example of just that. Firstly I need to admit that I downgraded my new laptop to XP Pro – Vista…
It’s fun being on the sidelines watching this one! Steve Clayton from Microsoft was pretty chuffed to be able to blog about Apple’s MobileMe debacle. One could almost hear the glee in his words reporting that, for once something…
Interesting news that Microsoft president of its Platform and Services division Kevin Johnson is leaving the company. Apparently he’s heading over to become CEO of Juniper Networks, the manufacturer of networking hardware. As Om reports, this hire, and some…
As RWW reported, Google docs was down for 30 minutes last week. Part of the RWW included a poll asking respondents what sort of downtime would make them reconsider using Google docs. The results are even more interesting considering…
Kaila bought my attention to a Silicon Alley post that is a pretty stark assertion about Google. It seems an anonymous Silicon Valley insider claims that it’s not just Yahoo with significant internal strife, he claims Microsoft, eBay and…
When Microsoft revealed Equipt the other day (Diversity coverage here) there was much discussion as to whether it amounted to the totality of MS’s SaaS offering). Well we didn’t have to wait long for an answer. At its worldwide…
Really interesting to read Sergey Solyanik’s post about the reasons he chose to leave Google for the greener (?) pastures of Microsoft. It’s just one man’s opinions but as Phil commented over on ZDNet, it does suggest some things…
A guest post from the Unreasonablemen.net News out today that Microsoft is going to offer to sell some versions of its desktop software on a subscription basis. This will be done in typical MS fashion under a cool product…
This post is going to come across as something as the missive of a corporate apologist. I’m not a corporate apologist, just have this naive idea that goes something like “but can’t we just all get along”. Anyway –…
A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There’s a growing opinion that the answer to that is no. Om Malik got stuck into Gmail last week. How is one supposed to run a business on such an unreliable platform? The…