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The Windows Store Revenue Split

December 7, 2011

Daring Fireball on the Windows Store Revenue Split: Another big difference from Apple. I wonder though, with the various antitrust agreements Microsoft has made around the world, whether they could even consider an Apple-style “if you use our store, all transactions must go through us” policy. John’s on to something. Although Microsoft isn’t subject to the [...]

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Just how good a defence are those Motorola patents, again?

August 22, 2011

Susan Decker for Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software maker, began arguing its U.S. trade case that Android- based smartphones made by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. use technology derived from Microsoft inventions. In a trial that began today before the International Trade Commission in Washington, Microsoft accused Motorola Mobility of infringing seven of [...]

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Windows 8, iOS and that weird post by Aaron Holsgrove

June 14, 2011

Other people have picked apart Aaron Holsgrove’s post on “Why Windows 8 is not fundamentally flawed as a response to the iPad“, but I think it’s worth going over more. It’s a catalogue of mistakes, which would keep the average commentator going for days. Take this, for example: If Apple never released the iPhone, we’d [...]

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The bit that John Gruber didn’t quote from Rich Mogull

May 26, 2011

The bit that John Gruber left out of his post quoting Rich Mogull on the Mac Defender malware: Windows 7 is actually more secure than OS X I wonder how many of John’s readers will pick up on that.

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Why the spec sheet method of buying a computer is dead

May 25, 2011

Poor Charles Arthur. Charles wrote a relatively simple post asking the question of why the Mac has proved to be so successful lately, out-performing the overall computer market and growing its market share. And in response, he got a 500+ long comment thread in which multiple geeks are arguing over how the specs of the [...]

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Why Microsoft bought Skype

May 16, 2011

Cringely thinks it’s simply to stop Google getting it: “Were Google to buy Skype they’d convert those 663 million Skype subscriptions to Google Voice and Gmail and in a swoop make parts of Yahoo and MSN irrelevant. They’d build a brilliant Skype client right into the DNA of Android, draining telco revenue and maybe killing [...]

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Why “evil” is the most over-used word in tech

March 2, 2011

One of the things which you often hear reading tech blogs, and particularly the comments, is that such-and-such a company is “evil”. What this usually means isn’t that they’re deliberately employing children or forcing workers to work in polluted factories which damage their health. Instead, the cry of “evil” is used to describe companies that [...]

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Apple 2011 = Microsoft ’97

February 18, 2011

Brilliant comment from “Chucky” on a post from from Michael Tsai: Microsoft in 1997 had a very specific corporate strategy. They had a temporary situation of great market leverage. And rather than concentrating on making better products for their users, they began to concentrate on two objectives: 1 Using their leverage to avoid the rise [...]

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The Nokia/Microsoft Elephant Tango

February 11, 2011

Alan Patrick ponders if Nokia and Microsoft ever be Mobile?: “The reason the JV is happening is that the assets being brought to the table are not so much incredible but non-credible. The two companies have completeley dropped the ball in mobile over the last 5 years, from positions of strength, due to a combination of [...]

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Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations

February 5, 2011

Danny Sullivan on Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations: “Meanwhile, I’m on my third day of waiting to hear back from Google about just what exactly it does with its own toolbar. Now that the company has fired off accusations against Bing about data collection, Google loses the right to stay as tight-lipped as it [...]

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