At first glance, Microsoft needs to make a very convincing argument to make people take note of Office 2010. After all, it's just another release of Office. Just about anyone would agree that Microsoft Office is by far the most feature-ri...
The dream of making low-cost computing and internet access available to underprivileged third-world communities is a fairly old one. The poster child of this effort is arguably the One Laptop Per Child initiative, a non-profit formed in January 2005 ...
By Wogan May
Exciting things have happened in the last few months. Apple's released the iPad, a device (or platform, if you will) that's already beginning to shape consumer demand and expectations. Other vendors are scrambling to catch up, with HP...
Microsoft is one of those companies that always seems to carry the weight of the computing world -- and rightly so. If you think of any area within computing, MS somehow has a finger in the pie. In some areas of course, they are the pie.
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A while back I wrote about the Battle of the Browsers between Opera's Opera, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox versus Microsoft's Internet Explorer. From the look of things, the axis of good have won with the recent announcement by Microsoft that...
While Windows 7 is constantly in the news this year, we can finally start making an educated judgement on what significance this product might have. In the last 10 years just about any Windows release was plagued by the same problems time an...
Google recently joined the group of companies supporting the European Commission's investigation into Microsoft over the benefits it gets ahead of its competitors by releasing its Internet Explorer browser with Windows. The complaint was originally f...
The internet, and particularly the ebook industry, is littered with debates about aggregation and monopoly, and in many of those debates the two concepts are confused. Let's be clear: aggregation is good, monopoly is bad.
For instance, a serious d...
Jerry Yang will be stepping down as Yahoo! CEO in the near future; as soon as they find a capable replacement. In an email to the employees, he says the decision to step down was taken jointly with the board. In translation: the board gave a vote of ...
I have written before on Apples onslaught on Microsoft and if Microsoft will survive and retaliate with some brilliant innovation. It seems they’ve opted for fixing their current product and marketing the idea that their new product is much better...
