Tag Archives: Microsoft

The Windows Store Revenue Split

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

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 … 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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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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The value carriers bring to Android

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

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: … Continue reading →

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Translating Google

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

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 … 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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