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2011 prediction #7: Microsoft is the new IBM
Microsoft isn’t going away, but they aren’t going to do a lot of things right in 2011, either. The company’s leadership is stuck, complacent, and just a bit thick. We’ve seen a lot of flux in the...
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I told you so
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is out with his autobiography and Vanity Fair has an excerpt available online. As the Nth richest man in the world, Allen isn’t doing this for the money. Maybe it’s for...
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Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare
The upcoming 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows, which Microsoftologists have taken to calling Windows 8 because Redmond has yet to announce an official name, has been appearing here and there and...
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What Microsoft should do
Before this week’s Lockheed Martin network breach story intervened, I wrote a column about the strategic dilemma faced by Microsoft from downward trends in both product pricing and new installations...
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Ballmer’s Last Stand
Moving sucks. Our furniture arrived late last week so I’ve been off the clock for awhile and there is a lot of catching-up to do. We’ll start with Microsoft and Windows 8, which I’ll argue are going...
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Prediction 7: A new Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer has always been nice to me. I can’t say we have much of a relationship, but the half dozen times I have interviewed him have always gone well and he tries to please, which I appreciate....
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On Win8 launch day a look back at Steve Ballmer, circa 2001
Ballmer goes all in… again Today was a big day for Microsoft, with the Windows 8 and tablet launches, and potentially a very big day, too, for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. It had better be, because...
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Steve Ballmer’s Dilemma
Napier & Son was the most successful British manufacturer of aircraft engines in the 1920s and 30s with their 12-cylinder Napier Lion powering 163 different types of aircraft between 1918 and 1935....
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Accidental Empires, Chapter 6 — Chairman Bill Leads the Happy Workers in Song
ACCIDENTAL EMPIRES CHAPTER SIX CHAIRMAN BILL LEADS THE HAPPY WORKERS IN SONG William H. Gates III stood in the checkout line at an all-night convenience store near his home in the Laurelhurst section...
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Accidental Empires, Chapter 14 — Counter-Reformation
ACCIDENTAL EMPIRES CHAPTER FOURTEEN COUNTER-REFORMATION In Prudhoe Bay, in the oilfields of Alaska’s North Slope, the sun goes down sometime in late November and doesn’t appear again until January, and...
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Microsoft, Ballmer, and the end of the PC era
So Steve Ballmer is leaving Microsoft a year from now: what kind of schedule is that? It’s one thing, I suppose, for a company to point out that they have a retirement policy or a succession plan, or...
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Why Microsoft really bought Nokia
This column, the obvious post on Microsoft buying most of Nokia, is arriving later than I had hoped because we had an Internet failure today at our house on the side of a mountain in Sonoma County...
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Bill Gates and the non-prediction prediction
Following my #1 prediction yesterday of dire consequences in 2014 for Microsoft some readers challenged me to say what should happen this year in Redmond to right the ship. Is it even possible? So...
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Nadella’s success at Microsoft probably depends on Gates
Microsoft has a new CEO in former cloud and server chief Satya Nadella and readers have been asking me what this means? Certainly Nadella was the least bad of the internal candidates but an external...
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Predictions #2 (and 3?): Microsoft and Apple hit walls
It isn’t easy being huge as both Apple and Microsoft are starting to realize. Both companies are incredibly successful and I’m not here to say either is in real danger, but both are suffering major...
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Microsoft, Ballmer, and the end of the PC era
So Steve Ballmer is leaving Microsoft a year from now: what kind of schedule is that? It’s one thing, I suppose, for a company to point out that they have a retirement policy or a succession plan, or...
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Why Microsoft really bought Nokia
This column, the obvious post on Microsoft buying most of Nokia, is arriving later than I had hoped because we had an Internet failure today at our house on the side of a mountain in Sonoma County...
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Bill Gates and the non-prediction prediction
Following my #1 prediction yesterday of dire consequences in 2014 for Microsoft some readers challenged me to say what should happen this year in Redmond to right the ship. Is it even possible? So...
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Nadella’s success at Microsoft probably depends on Gates
Microsoft has a new CEO in former cloud and server chief Satya Nadella and readers have been asking me what this means? Certainly Nadella was the least bad of the internal candidates but an external...
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Predictions #2 (and 3?): Microsoft and Apple hit walls
It isn’t easy being huge as both Apple and Microsoft are starting to realize. Both companies are incredibly successful and I’m not here to say either is in real danger, but both are suffering major...
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