Category Archives: Opinion

Spinning the Bing – Google I/O spin

Spinning the Bing – Google I/O spin

Today, on the Bing Search blog, Bing Director Stefan Weitz posted on some thoughts he and his team had while watching last week’s Google I/O keynote. … Read more

Microsoft and Google: is this war?

Microsoft and Google: is this war?

Some shots were fired back and forth today between Microsoft and Google in a series of exchanges both from the stage at Google I/O, and behind the… Read more

Are you a Microsoft enthusiast, or just Scroogled?

Are you a Microsoft enthusiast, or just Scroogled?

Here we go again, another day, and another negative ad campaign coming from Microsoft, this time attacking supposed privacy problems with Android… Read more

Late and lame again: why the Outlook.com Calendar is too little, too late

Late and lame again: why the Outlook.com Calendar is too little, too late

Yesterday Microsoft released their new updated version of an online calendar, offering a clean new interface and a basic set of features as part… Read more

Messenger phases out, Skype updates, and messaging on Microsoft is still a bit of a mess

Messenger phases out, Skype updates, and messaging on Microsoft is still a bit of a mess

Next week, Microsoft will begin the process of moving users off of their Windows Live Messenger clients and onto Skype, something that Messenger… Read more

Can the mobile landscape change?

Can the mobile landscape change?

Speaking to the Australian Financial Review, Blackberry’s CEO Thorstein Heins this week had a few choice things to say about the current mobile… Read more

Windows Phone 7.8 delayed: from beta tester to guinea pig?

Windows Phone 7.8 delayed: from beta tester to guinea pig?

Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7.8, the upgrade to Windows Phone 7.5 devices that adds new Live Tile functionality and a few fixes… Read more

That thing about Calendar

That thing about Calendar

Microsoft took the Preview tag off of Outlook.com this week, and told us to “stay tuned” for an update to Calendar, the long overdue “modern”… Read more

On selling out Surface Pro

On selling out Surface Pro

Today, the Microsoft Surface Pro went on sale for the first time, and depending on what you read, it’s already “sold out”.  The 128GB version… Read more

Does Microsoft have a future? (Part 2: Can Xbox save the company?)

Does Microsoft have a future?  (Part 2: Can Xbox save the company?)

In Part 1 of this post, we examined a post by analyst Adam Hartung posted last week in Forbes, and a subsequent interview with Hartung by Onoura Amobi… Read more