Category Archives: Microsoft

Why the spec sheet method of buying a computer is dead

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

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+ … Continue reading →

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Why Microsoft bought Skype

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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Apple 2011 = Microsoft ’97

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

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, … Continue reading →

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The Nokia/Microsoft Elephant Tango

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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Why Microsoft is right to hold off on a tablet

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Joe Wilcox, Betanews: “Ballmer was right not to make any major tablet announcement, showing off something that wasn’t ready. Any zealous tablet push would have led to bloggers, journalists and Wall Street analysts making … Continue reading →

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Today’s Apple Tablet dumbness: Step forward, The Apple Blog

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

How to put this? Oh yes, “the stupid, it burns”. Liam Cassidy has used his magical gift of clairvoyance and decided that a product about which no one knows any concrete details is better than a product which has been … Continue reading →

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Idiot post of the day

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Sadly, because I generally enjoy his writing, it’s from Robert Cringely: “iPhone and Android will be here for the long haul with the question being which of Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry will die?” Answer: None of them. There … Continue reading →

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2009: The year tech blogging died

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Most years are full of idiocy. But I think I can make a decent case for this year being the worst on record, at least from the perspective of writing about technology. This was the year when tech writing plumbed … Continue reading →

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