Legacy enterprise IT vendors may be scrambling to spread the blame in the wake of earnings misses, but one mega-vendor is not, and it’s the one open-source advocates have argued for years was doomed to imminent oblivion: Microsoft. For all its stumbles in mobile and online, Microsoft continues to soar in core enterprise infrastructure [...]
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Two Reasons Microsoft Registers Doubl...
Legacy enterprise IT vendors may be scrambling to spread the blame in the wake of earnings misses, but one mega-vendor is not, and it’s the one open-source advocates have argued for years was doomed to imminent oblivion: Microsoft. For all its stumbles in mobile and online, Microsoft continues to soar in core enterprise infrastructure [...]
9 Things Microsoft Does Right
M$: Short for Microsoft, used to imply Microsoft cares more for money than it does for security, stability, and anything else that could make a good Operating System.” – Urban Dictionary, 2004.
“Microsoft sucks.” Too many times, the conversation stops there.
Yes, Microsoft gets plenty of criticism, much of it justifie [...]
7 Essential Predictions For Mobile Ap...
Guest author Chris O’Connor is chief executive of mobile solutions provider Taptera.
The booming mobile applications market is a hot topic right now at many a water cooler in Silicon Valley and beyond. I’ve toiled in the mobile market since 2007 and in those
Will Samsung Replace Apple As Innovat...
Samsung dramatically outsells Apple now, according to IDC’s latest numbers, but market leadership isn’t merely a matter of market share. While Samsung will almost certainly outsell Apple for years to come, the bigger question is whether the Korean giant is ready to take its mantle as mobile computing’s innovation hub. For n [...]
What I Learned At CES
It was fashionable this year to dismiss CES as irrelevant and a waste of time. Some tech sites didn’t even send reporters. Others that did send staff mostly did so to promote their own brands, with big booths covered in their names and logos.
To be sure, there’s some truth to all the sneering. The show is too big, too crowded, too bloated, t [...]
Windows 8′s 2013 Enterprise Rep...
An estimated 40 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold by Microsoft as of mid December. But it is not clear how many of those licenses will show up in the enterprise vs. the consumer market
Why The Enterprise Renaissance Will B...
“The easy problems in the world are solved, the hard ones are left, and we’re going to need software to fix them.”
That’s how GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner characterized the technological challenges ahead at a roundtable discussion of predictions for the enterprise in San Francisco Thursday.
Sounds a hell of a [...]
Urban Airship Acquires Tello, Banking...
In a move that enhances its mobile management toolkit, push notification service Urban Airship has acquired Tello, a Palo Alto-based company that helps businesses and app-makers create passes for Apple’s Passbook.
The move comes on the heels of Urban Airship’s purchase last year of mobile location service SimpleGeo. Urban Airship’s acquisiti [...]
Why Evernote Just Doesn’t Work ...
Evernote is a very useful, Swiss-Army knife kind of software application that provides users with the tools they need to collect all of the information from their online journeys. It is a boon to anyone serious about task management and online research. So why can’t I get it integrated into my own work habits?
For some inexplicable rea [...]