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.
Category: Futures
Why Sarah Friar is Wrong About Microsoft’s 2011 Growth Prospects
Goldman Sachs’ analyst Sara Friar is at it again.
Why Its Time to Break Up Microsoft
Microsoft posted a record quarterly profit of $4.5B on record revenue of $16.04B after the markets closed yesterday. The EPS of 51 cents blew away analysts cons...
Why Regulators Need to Mandate Open Data Protocols in the Cloud
TechCrunch’s article about Intuit’s decision to shut down Quicken OnLine and not let users migrate their data to the new service Mint.com is an outs...
Do Home PCs Have a Negative Impact on Student Achievement?
The answer to that question is a big yes if you believe the results of a large study carried out by Professors Malamud of the University of Chicago and his coll...
Does Economic Growth Require a Growing Population?
The UK’s Royal Society has just announced a major new research project on the implications of population growth. The study is to be headed by the Nobel La...
IT Platforms and the Ecology of Innovation
It has been fun being back in Beijing this week. My first visit to the city was in 1989 when the streets were still filled with bicycles. I’ve been back h...