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Microsoft Looks for a New View

September 7th, 2008 · No Comments

[Uploaded via flickr by Thomas Hawk]
With Microsoft’s stumbling with the lauch of Vista has come a litany of stories about the demise of Windows as the IT industries richest franchise. However it’s death, if evident, will be slow and painful and will be a result of lots of small cuts, not a wholesale shift to [...]

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End of an Era at Microsoft

July 5th, 2008 · No Comments

[Uploaded on flickr on December 29, 2005 by niallkennedy]
With the departure of Bill Gates from the day to day running of Microsoft it marks an end of an era for Microsoft and one of the truly great business icons. However Gates is not remarkable for the technology he produced, but for his ability to transform [...]

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Tags: Management · Microsoft · bill gates

Mobile Times They Are A Changing

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
2007 will go down in history as the turning point where smartphones became mobile [...]

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Tags: Apple · Google · IPhone · Technology