April 2013
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Time for Some New Adventures
Image via Flickr After a great two-and-a-half years at VMware, I am casting off for new adventures. At VMware, we dramatically changed the platform-as-a-service landscape with Cloud Foundry. You just don’t hear people talking any more about a single language or framework dominating the cloud. And the public cloud/private cloud debate is not question…
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Third Time’s a Charm?
So now Microsoft joins the rumored array of aspiring watchmakers. Every story includes an obligatory reference to the Microsoft SPOT watch and its FM sideband broadcast technology: Yet there was an even earlier Microsoft watch. Industry history, it turns out, predates the archives of any tech blog, even those that stretch all the way back…
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A Very Targeted Tax Cut
We are in new territory with PC sales in freefall after a new release of Windows and, as some analysts contend, because of Windows 8. Even the Windows Vista “Vistaster” didn’t see PC sales to implode. Discussions of Microsoft are moving beyond product recriminations to the more fundamental. The time-honored strategy of tying new…