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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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
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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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, before we weren’t able to be there, but this year we will. LA here we
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Sociale netwerken zijn voor marketeers een belangrijke “ontmoetingsplaats”. En ook politici zijn er in toenemende mate te vinden. In zijn verkiezingscampagne in 2008 liet Obama het belang van sociale netwerken zoals Twitter al zien. Kiezers zijn in toenemende mate online, 24 uur per dag, 7 dagen per week. Een online ontmoeting lijkt een stuk effectiever dan een tijdrovende ontmoeting
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 you
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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
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