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Tag Archives: Microsoft
Fixations
Microsoft (market cap $182 billion) is fixated on Google. Google (market cap $122 billion) is fixated on Facebook. Facebook (market cap ~$3 billon) is fixated on Twitter. Who or what is Twitter fixated on? Revenue? Uptime? Oprah? Rolling up the … Continue reading
Say It Ain’t So
Flight Simulator is the biggest product casualty of the Microsoft layoffs? The layoffs are a sad day for all the people affected and a disappointing milestone for the company, but Flight Sim is an industry institution dating back three decades. … Continue reading
Nixon White House
We used to joke at Microsoft in the twilight of the 20th century at the height of the dot com bubble and amidst the DoJ proceedings that things had gotten “a little Nixon White House” in terms of tumult … Continue reading
I, RoboChamp
One of the last things I helped kick off before I left Microsoft was a simulated robotics competition for developers called RoboChamps. The first season of RoboChamps is now underway. Because it runs in a simulated environment, you don’t need … Continue reading
The End of an Era
(For me anyway). Today was my last day at Microsoft. I’m going to see if there is life beyond the 98052 zip code and make sure I avoid any future tolls on the 520 bridge. Microsoft was a phenomenal experience … Continue reading
What Transpired with Wired?
Two posts in one week and both about the same issue of Wired no less. Yesterday’s kerfuffle in which Wired is “shocked, shocked” to learn there is a PR industry has been all over the blogosphere. Microsoft screwed up by accidentally … Continue reading
Uninspired by Wired
The April issue has an article entitled “Desktop R.I.P.” that enthuses breathlessly about “computing moving off your machine and into the cloud”. I talked to the reporter, Jason Tanz, for this article a couple months ago (real-time Wired isn’t). Tanz, whose byline suggests … Continue reading
