Category Archives: Opinion
Can Microsoft take over the living room with Xbox, Kinect, and Bing?
Dec 4, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
On Tuesday, Microsoft will begin to roll out the next version of the Xbox experience, featuring a new dashboard that combines your living room TV… Read more
Taking a glimpse at the future of SkyDrive (from their blog post)
Nov 27, 2011 by damaster
Over at the official Inside Windows Live team blog, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres, Group Program Managers for SkyDrive, recently made a blog post… Read more
Google Graveyard? Microsoft throws stones from its glass house
Nov 2, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
On Halloween, Tom Rizzo, a SharePoint Senior Director, poked some fun and threw some stones at rival Google, commenting on Google’s plan to retire… Read more
What is SkyDrive waiting for?
Oct 18, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
Today the headlines are all about Dropbox, and how the fast-rising company turned down an offer from Steve Jobs, who called the file storage and… Read more
Microsoft’s deals with Nokia and Skype: are we waiting for Godot?
Oct 2, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
Our friend Long Zheng spotted news of an upcoming Nokia Maps app for Windows Phone, apparently coming to (at least) Nokia Windows Phones when they… Read more
Microsoft and mindshare: can Mango be cool in the mall?
Sep 28, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
Lots of news around Microsoft’s latest update to Windows Phone today, as Mango was announced, and amazingly (with a little help from an undocumented… Read more
Oh by the way, where’s Windows Live Wave 5?
Sep 14, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
This week at Build, we’ve heard about changes upcoming to the way mail and messaging will work in Windows 8, perhaps putting a Windows Live Messenger… Read more
As the Smartphone Turns: players jockey for positions around the Elephants In the Room
Aug 29, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
As we enter the Mango era, possibly the first make or break test of Microsoft’s latest foray into the smartphone market, things couldn’t be… Read more
Yes Frank, the horse has left the barn– it’s not Plus PC, it’s Past PC
Aug 21, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
OK so I like Frank Shaw. I liked him when he worked at Waggener Edstrom, although we never really dealt directly together, and I like him at Microsoft. … Read more
The one where we try to make sense of patents
Aug 16, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
So, Google announced today that it was acquiring Motorola Mobility, and we’ve been reading every blog post we can find since then to try and make… Read more
