Microsoft’s Pivot – A Plan to Dominate “Devices and Services”
We are currently witnessing a major pivot in Microsoft’s core business model. It is starting to become clear that – as Steve Ballmer recently announ...
Author: Jonathan
Why Microsoft Shareholders Should be Very Concerned
This weeks Partner’s conference has once again exposed Microsoft’s complete lack of any credible consumer strategy. On the one hand Ballmer claims h...
Deploycon 2012 Slides
Link to the PDF of the slides I used for my recent “Paas: Fit for the Enterprise” presentation at DeployCon 2012 in New York.
The Network Carrier Dilemma
This article in Forbes magazine about network equipment providers enabling network carriers to expose service APIs (Application Programing Interfaces) started a...
The Jobs Are Not Coming Back
The NY Times published an interesting article today the impact of robotics on manufacturing jobs using Amazon’s purchase of robot maker Kiva Systems as an...
Mahler’s Ninth
Waiting for the start of Mahler’s Ninth. Performed by the New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center, New York.
2012 Predictions
Just for fun – and in no particular order – here are some technology industry predictions for 2012.
Intel’s ARMageddon II
Back in January of this year I published an article about the threat the ARM processor architecture would pose to Intel in the high margin – highly profit...
Intel’s ARMageddon
In ten years we’re going to recognize this week as the moment Intel ceded its leadership position in the global chip business. Microsoft’s decision ...
Sinofsky’s Power Play
At CES yesterday we may just have witnessed the first public exposure of an internal power play for the future leadership of Microsoft.