Over the past years Microsoft focused mostly on providing the market with the right devices. Because other device producers didn’t do well enough, Microsoft bought Nokia and developed their own Surface. The Nokia acquisition wasn’t successful and it made Microsoft realise it has a different purpose. During Microsoft’s yearly partner event Inspire in Las Vegas, Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO clearly showed Microsoft’s new ambition: experience centric development to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve
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John, a product manager of a large corporate, proudly shows his management what results their 200 software development teams are delivering every second week!
He knows he impressed them. But soon his confidence is gone. With a weak voice, he confesses the teams do not have enough work to be done …..
They react furiously. “Impossible”, the business management claims, because there is work for about 10 years queuing.
John knows the long wish list, but he does not know
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This week’s announcement that a preview of the new Office 2016 for Mac is now officially available was a little surprise to me. I knew it was coming, but didn’t expect it to be available already. Ok, it is “just” a preview and may be you shouldn’t use it for your business, but on the other hand why not give it a try. Recent previews of Microsoft solutions are rather
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[Update: Currently the final Windows 8.1 version is available. The below no longer fully applies. Read this instruction to upgrade your Surface with Windows 8.1 preview] Windows 8 probably was a too big revolution for today’s users. Adoption rates are rather low. Still I believe it’s a great OS, probably the best one in today’s market. The currently available Windows 8.1 preview is supposed
Today live coverage of the Lechia Gdansk football match on Instagram by a group of local active Instagramers. Probably it’s the first time in Poland that such an event is being covered by using Instagram. Igersgdansk, the Gdansk based Instagram group, selected Instareporters based on the
The Heartbeat of the new world economy is mobile according to the latest video by Erik Qualman, among others the author of Socialnomics. Globally mobiles are outnumbering the amount of people, which basically means that many of us are using more than one. We even seem to prefer an iPhone above babies, at least the iPhone growth rate is higher than the amount of newborns. We are tweeting mostly when we are on
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A modern human being has on average 40 mobile apps on his smartphone. The mobile device has gathered a variety of our daily-use tools from a classic calendar to a rather extravagant metal detector. Since we live in a consumer generation, where retail brings $1.1 trillion annually, we want
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The shopping rush season has already started in November and especially sped up after Thanksgiving. What’s more it seems the mobile devices and multichannel strategies bring the expected results for the majority of retailers. Current data promise the season success of at least
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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 have to queue in front of the Microsoft Store
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
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