Category Archives: Opinion
Spinning the Bing – Google I/O spin
May 22, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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?
May 15, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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?
Apr 10, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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
Apr 4, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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
Apr 1, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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?
Mar 18, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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?
Feb 27, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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
Feb 21, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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
Feb 9, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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?)
Jan 29, 2013 by Kip Kniskern
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
