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US Mission, part 5: A warm welcome in Seattle

by Peter Horsten on October 24, 2012

We traveled from a warm and sunny Silicon Valley to a wet and chilly Seattle, Washington, which appeared to be a completely different experience. Again we met a lot of entrepreneurship, but in a different atmosphere. Work/life balance seems to matter here, people don’t think it’s a myth like we heard at Blackbox in Silicon Valley. Many Seattle and Washington state based companies have proven this can lead to world-wide successful companies as well. Among others Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft and Starbucks are based here. [Read more...]

Windows Surface sold-out already

October 24, 2012

Will Surface, Microsoft’s tablet, appear to be a game changer? Did Microsoft (on purpose) order too little of them? Who will tell. But fact is that online orders are being backordered for 1-3 weeks. On Friday the Microsoft Stores will have limited amounts of the Surface available, how many is unclear. It looks like I will [...]

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Can Microsoft regain its leading position with Windows 8?

October 16, 2012

According to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Microsoft is not among the top four leading tech companies. These are Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google. That’s what we can learn from last week’s interview by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, For sure these are great companies, providing wonderful solutions, but I honestly believe we can just talk about a top [...]

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The most important Windows release ever coming soon

October 15, 2012

It seems Microsoft has finally started its marketing campaign for Windows 8. The fist commercial with a countdown to 8 has been shown since last weekend. It’s coming soon. But what does Windows 8 really mean to Microsoft and its position in today’s IT-world? Probably the most important time in Microsoft’s history is here to come.

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Los Angeles here we come – WPC11

March 24, 2011

Yearly Microsoft organises the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) to share the latest Microsoft news with their partner network. A network Microsoft is really depending on. More than 95% of Microsoft’s revenue comes through their partners. It seems to be an event you have to attend. Goyello is already a Microsoft Partner for several years. Unfortunately, [...]

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Wouldn’t we all like such a dream deal?

November 8, 2010

According to Reuters Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is selling some of his holdings of Microsoft stock, worth about $1.3 billion. He plans to sell up to 75 million shares by year-end. This will reduce his share in Microsoft with about 12%. Of course rumors directly came up. But be honest: wouldn’t we all [...]

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Queuing in front of the KFC at 4 am

October 21, 2009

Queuing in front of the KFC at 4 am Originally uploaded by Peter Horsten The day has just started, but anyway I guess this is going to be my picture of the day today. I was really surprised seeing such a queue in front of the KFC at 4 am. On the other hand if [...]

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The freedom of Open source not always for free

April 16, 2009

I was not aware of the fact that a lot of people have different opinions about the meaning of open source software. But you can find all kind of strange presumptions about open source. Although open source software gives a lot of freedom, it is not necessarily for free. Time to clarify. And please correct [...]

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GOYELLO Microsoft Gold Partner

March 19, 2009

Great news. Today we achieved the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner level. GOYELLO managed to reach this level so quickly after the previous certification due to our clients’ positive feedback but also our employees’ contribution which they made by acquiring higher certificates . First of all we treat the Gold Level as true appreciation of all [...]

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