A highly detailed proposal for Microsoft's stores leaked online late Friday afternoon, and if it's real, Redmond's first foray into retail appears to be following the usual Microsoft formula: Roll up the best ideas of others and ...READ»
It's 1979 all over again: The economy's tanked, New York's getting gritty, and Apple has a hammerlock on the high end of the personal computer business.READ»
Microsoft recently announced they were planning to open up retail stores ala Apple near the latter company's existing locations. Leading the charge is former Wal-Mart merchandising guru David Porter, who was hired on as Redmond's ...READ»
Yesterday at the Worldwide Partners Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner regaled attendees with a tale of the "greatest single phone call in the history that I've ever taken in business." Not to be tripped up by a grammatical ...READ»
In my book The Way of Innovation,
I talk a lot about how consumer habits can become a powerful underpinning of a
company’s grand strategy. For example, when I was a loyal Starbucks customer (someday I’ll share why I no longer ...READ»
Smart meters are great for keeping track of energy use, sure, but smart appliances and tools are also necessary for homes to truly become energy-efficient. GE wants to be the conduit that allows homes of the future to produce "net ...READ»
Good news for Windows Mobile users from the Worldwide Partner Conference: by year's end, Windows Marketplace, Microsoft's upcoming app vendor, will be open to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1. Previously Microsoft was gearing the site toward WinMo ...READ»
New data suggests Microsoft's Bing search engine is continuing to grow well, weeks after its launch. It's great news for the team at Redmond...but it started us wondering: Are we in the middle of a Microsoft Rennaissance?
Microsoft's ...READ»
Microsoft's just previewed the Office 2010 productivity suite. It seems MS is responding to the challenge of Google Docs with a full browser-based system that expands on Office 2007.READ»
The Internet's been alive with supposition, speculation and inspired guesses since Google's Chrome OS news hit this week. That's possibly why Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stepped up and talked about things. He's serious about ...READ»
Just as Google levels its sights on Microsoft's OS dominance, Microsoft is quietly adding some Bing to email provider Hotmail, nudging hundreds of millions of users toward Microsoft's Bing decision engine.
The primary change to ...READ»
Google's Chrome OS is either neat or irrelevant, depending on how you think--but the timing is undeniably interesting. It's more than a year away, so why'd Google go to press now? One theory is to beat Microsoft.
This idea's being ...READ»
Google caused a flurry of excitement last night when it revealed it would convert its Chrome browser into an operating system meant for netbooks. A chorus of OMG's burst from the tech blog network. This is a "clear shot in Microsoft's ...READ»
Last week I spent a day with Microsoft managers in Redmond,
Calif. Much of the talk was about Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. You may
have already read a lot about Bing – the massive marketing campaign of people ...READ»
Microsoft's Hohm launched in Beta this morning, promising an easier way for consumers to manage their carbon footprints as well as energy costs. Does it deliver?READ»
It would seem one of Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8 ads is a little more than some viewers can stomach, prompting the company to pull the ad from its Better Browser site and YouTube Channel. Microsoft’s explanation: ...READ»
Hohm may be Microsoft's answer to Google PowerMeter, but unlike PowerMeter, the Microsoft energy management application is a money-making venture. PowerMeter is under the philanthropic Google.org umbrella, while Hohm is part of ...READ»
Sidna Tulledge-Scheitel
Medical Director, Global
Products and Services
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
David Cerino
General Manager
Health Solutions Group
Microsoft
Redmond, ...READ»
A lot has been said about Microsoft's advertising over the past year, both good and bad. But a new batch of ads for Internet Explorer 8 has elicited a response unvoiced up to this point: Blechh! The ads, created by agency Bradley ...READ»
