Tweet From The Car. Something ELSE You Don’t Want to Dictate
Last week, Ford announced that they’re planning to add the ability to use Twitter through your Microsoft Sync-enabled vehicle. Yikes. I don’t want to tweet from my car, and it sounds like one more way...
View ArticleSuccess: The Business Change That Ruins Companies?
Why is it that the more successful a company becomes, the less able it is to manage that success? Is success the business change that inevitably will ruin your business? There was a time when anyone...
View ArticleGoogle Kills the Droid
Ahh, Droid. We barely knew ye . . . This week, Google introduced a version of Google Earth for Android SmartPhones. In large part, I don’t care; Google Earth is very cool, but compared to Google Maps...
View ArticleAbout The Long Tail: Even Microsoft Doesn’t Get It
Last October, I made a statement that was pretty strong, even for me: Long Tail Marketing is the single most important issue for your business’ growth and your business change that you will encounter....
View ArticleYou Should Care: Google Dumps Microsoft, Hates Apple
What kind of computer do you use? Are your files all stored on a hard drive in that computer, on a network drive, or off in the cloud somewhere? What software do you like? Do any of these questions...
View ArticleMicrosoft Done? Kin Dead? The New Microsoft Sells: BATTERIES
What do you do when you’ve fallen from being the most important desktop-computer software company in the world to an also-ran with nothing new of any importance for over a decade? You try a bunch of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hates You, Goes Extra Mile To Become Irrelevant
When I wrote a few weeks ago about Microsoft’s cool new battery technology, I was thinking that the beast from Redmond had headed down a new road. They’re actually giving the technology away under some...
View ArticlePaul Allen Is A Patent Troll: Why That’s OK
I’m Old. Sometimes that gets in the way, but mostly it affords me insight and the ability to be pragmatic about some of what happens in front of me while younger eyes might lose track of reality. Last...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need No Stinking Marketing (Windows Phone 7.5)
Ever notice you almost never hear about marketing and Microsoft? The reason is simple: Microsoft doesn’t need to “sell” anything. Businesses and people buy Windows because it’s Windows, buy Microsoft...
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Bing ToolBar? Bing REWARDS? Where’s Microsoft’s Coopetition?
Closed systems are a very bad idea. Hey, Microsoft: as you slide closer and closer to irrelevancy, keep that in mind. This article pointed me at Bing Rewards. And just as I felt a little sheepish for...
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Warren Buffett Uses Internet Explorer
The other day, Arianna Huffington snapped a picture of Warren Buffett in his office, and tweeted about it: Visiting Warren Buffett in his office. No Blackberry, iPhone or laptop…just a regular non-flat...
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Microsoft and Scarlet Grey Make Video Calling Real
In their continuing effort to stave off irrelevancy, Microsoft keeps branching into new businesses. The beast from Redmond will never again see the same kind of dominance they enjoyed with Windows and...
View ArticleGood, Bad, Perception, Reality: AOL Sells Self to Microsoft
Perception is Reality. So what’s your perception of AOL selling a big chunk of its patent portfolio to Microsoft? Reality: whichever side you hear things from, it doesn’t really matter whether AOL made...
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The Simplicity of World Domination (Google Owns Everything)
Back in the day, when I spent a lot of time being The Computer Answer Guy, I built my street cred giving a little talk about how you couldn’t go wrong being full-on into all things Microsoft. I’m no...
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Microsoft, Batteries, eReaders, and Stock Valuations
Yesterday, Microsoft created a joint venture with Barnes & Noble. The new company, named—I’m not kidding—NewCo, will own and operate Nook, the eReader that Barnes and Noble sells to compete with...
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Content Marketing Requires Clear Messages
In the mid 1990’s, when Microsoft was still MICROSOFT!!!!!!!, I traveled around doing a talk about technology that—as is my wont—was more about business than about the technology people thought was...
View ArticleBing, Android, iTunes, and the Coopetition of Business Change
Using an iPhone, but prefer the Microsoft Bing search engine? There’s an app for that. In the latest proof that Business Change is about coopetition, Apple has allowed Microsoft to put a search...
View ArticleTweet From The Car. Something ELSE You Don’t Want to Dictate
Last week, Ford announced that they’re planning to add the ability to use Twitter through your Microsoft Sync-enabled vehicle. Yikes. I don’t want to tweet from my car, and it sounds like one more way...
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Unlimited (Storage)
Let’s talk about a word you think you understand—but probably don’t. Courtesy of our friends at Microsoft OneDrive, today’s subject is the word unlimited. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that...
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