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On Steve Ballmer and Microsoft’s future 27 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
The announcement that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will retire “within the next 12 months” prompts some quick reflections on Ballmer and the state of his company. Ballmer suffers from lack of charisma...
Lenovo’s bundled Start menu: more OEM trouble for Microsoft 23 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
Lenovo and SweetLabs announced a deal yesterday whereby the Pokki app store and Start menu replacement will be pre-installed on Windows PCs. This has been widely interpreted as a response to user dis...
Email hassles with Android and Exchange: couldn’t open connection to server 8 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
I have an Asus/Google Nexus 7 which is set up to receive mail from Exchange 2010. At least, it was. Some time ago it stopped receiving mail. When the mail client tried to sync, I got this message: “...
Microsoft’s MSDN changes: too much marketing 2 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
Microsoft has updated its developer site, MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network). Simple, relevant and community driven, says Product Manager Brian Harry in a post introducing the new site. Developers ar...
Microsoft Office 365: migration hassles show why partners still have a role 30 Jul 2013 | 01:08 pm
I have been working with a small business migrating its email to Office 365. The task seems simple enough: migrate just over 100 mailboxes from on-premise Exchange 2007. There is no requirement for a ...
Appcelerator plans to rethink Titanium architecture, standardise on WebKit JavaScript engine 24 Jul 2013 | 09:26 pm
Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie has posted about his plans for Titanium, the company’s cross-platform mobile development toolkit. The plan is to completely rewrite the core engine, while maintaining a m...
Ubuntu forum hack sets same-password users at risk 24 Jul 2013 | 01:53 pm
Canonical has announced a comprehensive security breach of its forums. Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user’s local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database...
Not just Windows: even Mac sales are down 24 Jul 2013 | 11:48 am
Apple has released its third quarter financial results, and they are decent: year on year revenue is up fractionally, from $35.023 billion to $35,323 billion, though profit is down from $8.8 billion t...
Windows RT and Surface RT: Why Microsoft should persevere 19 Jul 2013 | 02:11 pm
Microsoft has reported a $900 million write-down on Surface RT inventory in its latest financial results. Was Surface RT a big mistake? A loss of that size is a massive blunder, but the concept behin...
Microsoft financials: nearly a $billion lost on Surface RT but prospering in server and cloud 19 Jul 2013 | 02:08 pm
Microsoft has reported fourth quarter and full year results for its financial year ending June 30th 2013. I am in the habit of tracking the results quarter by quarter with a simple table: Quarter en...
