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What if Apple did what Microsoft just did?

Thursday, May 4, 2017 11:26 amThursday, May 4, 201732 Comments

Microsoft selling a MacBook killer called the Surface Laptop…

Beleaguered Microsoft pulls plug on Zune music service

Monday, November 16, 2015 5:59 pmMonday, November 16, 201531 Comments

Microsoft has pulled the plug on its failed music service, Zune…

Amazon and Best Buy slash prices on Moto 360 stupidwatch

Friday, April 10, 2015 4:55 pmFriday, April 10, 201527 Comments

As the revolutionary Apple Watch preorders kicked off, Motorola’s Moto 360 flop saw it’s price hacked today…

Bill and Melinda Gates won’t be wearing Apple Watch Edition – or any Apple Watch

Friday, March 13, 2015 9:34 amFriday, March 13, 201553 Comments

Count Melinda and that old thief Bill Gates out of the Apple Watch craze…

Beleaguered Microsoft axes another 2,100 employees

Thursday, September 18, 2014 8:37 pmThursday, September 18, 201425 Comments

Microsoft has confirmed another 2,100 redundancies as part of a plan…

The day Ballmer went too far: Screaming ultimatum to BoD last July, either buy Nokia or I’m gone!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 2:28 pmWednesday, March 5, 201436 Comments

As Satya Nadella puts his stamp on Microsoft Corp., he’s coming to grips…

Microsoft looks ready to kill off Windows RT

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:07 pmTuesday, November 26, 201340 Comments

Do not risk your hard-earned money on Microsoft’s dead end products…

Microsoft plans September 23 Surface tablet event

Monday, September 9, 2013 5:43 pmMonday, September 9, 201368 Comments

Microsoft on Monday sent out invitations to a September 23 event…

Jean-Louis Gassée: Enormous differences between Apple’s 1997 and Microsoft’s 2013 reorganizations

Monday, July 15, 2013 11:01 amTuesday, September 10, 201313 Comments

There are enormous differences between the scorched-earth reorganization of Apple in 1997…

Microsoft Steve Ballmer’s latest labyrinthine reorg doomed by contradictions

Friday, July 12, 2013 4:45 pmFriday, July 12, 201322 Comments

Microsoft unveiled a long-awaited new strategy…

Ballmer tightens death grip on Microsoft with major revamp

Friday, July 12, 2013 3:32 pmSaturday, July 13, 201319 Comments

Microsoft Corp’s sweeping re-organization on Thursday creates…

Steve Ballmer’s Jobsian ‘vision’ is for Microsoft to work like Apple

Friday, July 12, 2013 12:40 pmFriday, July 12, 201321 Comments

Steve Ballmer wants Microsoft to work more like Apple…

Microsoft is the new Apple

Friday, July 12, 2013 10:53 amFriday, July 12, 201346 Comments

When Microsoft launched its Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets…

Microsoft slashes price of its moribund Surface RT tablet

Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:36 pmThursday, July 11, 201332 Comments

Microsoft is slashing the price of its anemic-selling Surface RT tablet…

Microsoft’s moribund Windows RT rasps out death rattle

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 3:31 pmTuesday, July 9, 201332 Comments

The death knell is sounding for Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system…

The difference between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:37 pmTuesday, May 7, 201328 Comments

Yesterday Bill Gates took some heat in the media when he proclaimed….

Bill Gates: A lot of iPad users frustrated because ‘they can’t type’ or ‘create documents’

Monday, May 6, 2013 12:39 pmMonday, May 6, 2013102 Comments

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told CNBC on Monday that Microsoft…

How Tim Cook is like Steve Ballmer

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:12 amTuesday, April 23, 201331 Comments

It’s worth pointing out that Apple is not the only big tech company…

Analyst: Microsoft’s Surface RT on track to join Zune and Kin in the great consumer electronics discount rack in the sky

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:32 amWednesday, March 13, 201359 Comments

Microsoft has never had a good track record with consumer hardware…

As Surface and other Windows tablets flop, Microsoft slashes Windows 8 and Office prices for OEMs

Thursday, March 7, 2013 3:30 pmThursday, March 7, 201328 Comments

Microsoft Corp. has recently been offering price breaks on its Windows 8…

Can Microsoft executives really be that stupid?

Thursday, March 7, 2013 1:01 pmThursday, March 7, 201338 Comments

So here we go again…

Microsoft’s Windows RT: Circling the bowl

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:05 pmWednesday, February 6, 201319 Comments

Over the past several days, Windows CFO and CMO Tami Reller…

Can Microsoft be any less dead?

Monday, January 7, 2013 1:43 pm43 Comments

The stock market has never been the same since Microsoft lost its title…

Forbidden fruit: Bill Gates’ kids banned from owning superior Apple products

Monday, December 31, 2012 9:55 am47 Comments

Melinda Gates, the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has said her children are banned…

Why Microsoft’s Surface tablet is doomed

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:46 amWednesday, December 5, 201239 Comments

Why you should think twice about betting your business on Microsoft’s new device…

Microsoft hit with lawsuit over Surface tablet’s lack of storage due to bloated Windows RT operating system

Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:54 amThursday, November 15, 201233 Comments

Microsoft’s 32 GB Surface has only 16 GB of free space…

Ballmer suggests more Microsoft-branded devices coming

Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:26 amThursday, November 15, 201231 Comments

Ballmer said Microsoft would look at more opportunities to build its own devices…

Analyst: Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet priced too high, could be the next Zune

Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:02 pm37 Comments

Surface’s high pricing could prove to be a fatal mistake and relegate it to be a niche…

Microsoft’s Ballmer sees company mimicking Apple business model more often in future

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:23 amWednesday, October 10, 201219 Comments

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has signaled a new direction…

Fox News: Copier Microsoft is doomed to fail with Surface tablet

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:03 pm44 Comments

Microsoft has always mimicked other technologies, mostly Apple’s….

Microsoft’s Surface tablet destined to be as successful as the Zune

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:31 pmTuesday, June 19, 201264 Comments

Microsoft announced ambitious plans on Monday to produce a tablet computer…

The End: Microsoft officially axes Zune brand

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 11:45 am57 Comments

Microsoft is sending Zune to the pasture where Microsoft brands go to die…

Ex-Microsoftie Robbie Bach: We should’ve skipped the Zune player; we ended up chasing Apple

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:02 pmTuesday, May 15, 201233 Comments

Former Microsoft executive Robbie Bach led the company’s entertainment division…

Microsoft to resume ‘squirting’ on Windows 8, Windows Phone

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 6:06 pm35 Comments

The so-called squirting functionality of the first-gen Zune…

Microsoft: ‘We will no longer be producing Zune players’

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 9:15 amTuesday, October 4, 201177 Comments

Microsoft Corporation, on their Zune website today stated the obvious. Zune hardware is dead…

More blood on Apple iPod’s Click Wheel: Zune hardware gone from Microsoft site (Updated: They’re baaack!)

Monday, October 3, 2011 2:21 pmMonday, October 3, 201133 Comments

Microsoft has removed references to all Zune hardware from the official Zune website…

Microsoft Zune manager quits

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 10:15 am37 Comments

The shift comes after a string of senior-level exits from Microsoft…

Microsoft Windows Phone revenue less than $613 million a year

Monday, August 1, 2011 3:31 pmMonday, August 1, 201120 Comments

Buried deep within Microsoft’s annual report Thursday…

Microsoft apologizes for crass tweet following Amy Winehouse death

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:56 pm34 Comments

The tweet was widely criticized among Twitter users who called it ‘cheap’ and ‘crass’…

Sign of the times: Apple to open huge Berlin flagship store in former Microsoft Showroom location

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:15 amWednesday, May 25, 201122 Comments

The building opened in 1913 under the name Union Palace and was one of the first true movie theaters in Berlin…

Did Microsoft blow $8.5 billion on the wrong Skype?

Monday, May 16, 2011 1:39 pm31 Comments

When a company is acquired, the price paid is usually higher…

Xoom zuned: Motorola drops Xoom orders, contracts with suppliers end in June

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:23 pmTuesday, March 22, 201168 Comments

Motorola’s Xoom orders in the second quarter will drop each month and orders will only last till the end of June…

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