Let’s be honest, not many people would say Microsoft are the most innovate. They’re almost never the first to market but you have to give them credit; over time they dominate any market they enter. Or as Steve Ballmer puts it, they just keep “Coming and Coming and Coming” There are [...]
It looks like Salesforce is back with their pranks. Back in the day Salesforce had been known to picket Siebel events and pull all sorts of publicity stunts.
After catching a whiff of Ballmer’s hint, it looks like they’ve hired people to stand outside PDC with donuts trying to promote their Platform.
Frankly I think it’s [...]
What do most people expect during the annual Microsoft Professional Developers Conference? Most are probably expecting a new version of .NET or Visual Studio. This year however, I think many industry watchers will be surprised.
The energy was definitely upbeat at the company meeting a few weeks ago. There [...]
By now you have heard of Chrome, Google’s browser that is set to break JavaScript rendering speeds. There’s plenty of articles on the web about the good, the bad, and the ugly of Chrome; so I won’t get into that. However, Microsoft seems to have been shaken up slightly - in another area than browser [...]
As anticipated Microsoft announced a new Online Services strategy at their annual Worldwide Partner Conference. They announced new pricing and availability of Microsoft Online Services. Products such as Exchange, SharePoint, Live Meeting, and Dynamics CRM will be hosted by Microsoft and sold by partners. This presents a huge opportunity for partners to provide [...]
Microsoft has long mastered partner sales channel and in fact that is the primary reason why they were slow to enter the SaaS market. How can they enter the market without pissing off many partners who are already making money off SaaSified Microsoft products? This is mostly concerning for Microsoft ASPs (Application Service Providers); [...]
Phil Wainewright from ZDNET wrote an article recently titled Google’s culture ‘not fit’ for enterprise apps. It basically follows through the blog post of Sergey Solyanik from Microsoft. Sergey worked at Microsft since the late 1990s, quit and went to work for Google, realized Microsoft is better suited to him, recently re-joined Microsoft, and wrote [...]
