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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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 …
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
…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
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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
…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 like such a dream deal? Isn’t that what every entrepreneur is hoping
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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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