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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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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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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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Why Microsoft is right to hold off on a tablet

January 13, 2011

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 iPad comparisons. By staying away from Apple and iPad, Ballmer kept the message pure, which [...]

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The value carriers bring to Android

October 9, 2010

Commenting on Andy Rubin’s comment that “the carriers have a lot of value to bring” to Android, John Gruber asks: “What software on Android phones have the carriers added that’s any good at all?” I can think of one example: Verizon dropping Google search for Bing. But I suspect that this wasn’t the kind of [...]

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Translating Google

January 30, 2010

Jeff Jarvis fires off a couple of questions in an apartment in Davos to the Googlers. Here are Eric Schmidt’s answers, with some handy translations from Google-speak. Schmidt: Phones: Will they have a tablet? “You might want to tell me what the difference is between a large phone and a tablet,” Schmidt said. Translation: You [...]

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2009: The year tech blogging died

December 22, 2009

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 new depths of stupidity, repetition, and sheer unadulterated circle jerking. It was the year when [...]

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