As many of you know, Bill Gates will be stepping down this week from his day-to-day duties at Microsoft. The blogosphere has been going nuts about it. This is for sure the end of an era. Some have even gone as far as saying this is the end of the on-premise era. Ironically enough, [...]
We all know how Marc Benioff can be quite vocal about his competitors. But check out this Dynamics CRM Online promo video. It’s 44 secs long but the customer spends about 30 secs trashing Salesforce.com
I thought it was funny that he didn’t mention a single good thing about Dynamics CRM. I guess Microsoft [...]
Ever since Microsoft made it public that they wanted to buy Yahoo, I’ve heard a lot about what Microsoft should and should not do. Some insane ideas ranged from buying SAP to Logitech.
I guess given all of this nonsense, my opinion would probably not be worse than these suggestions. So in my view, if [...]
As we know, the traditional on premise software giants like Microsoft, Oracle, SAP are now stepping up with hosted versions of their application. This allows customers to choose a flavour that they prefer. For example, let’s look at Microsoft Dynamics CRM. If a customer prefers to kick it old school they can buy [...]
In case you don’t know who J Allard is, he’s the super trendy executive that heads up Microsoft’s Consumer Electronics division. He’s basically in charge of the Zune and XBox 360.
Anyways check out this video secretly embedded into the Project Gotham Racing 3 website. Follow these steps:
- click the link below
- when the [...]
Microsoft is a master at selling software through a partner channel. Unlike IBM they don’t have a large services division to push their product. So instead, Microsoft sells most of their software through partner ISVs (Independent Software Vendors).
Let me first explain what a Microsoft partner is. When you buy a PC, you never [...]
Josh Quittner is a well respected tech journalist and he’s been in this game for a long time. Before corporate America knew what the Internet was, he was one of the first to recognize the opportunity in domain name squatting. So I can respect that.
However, I read an article in Fortune magazine [...]
