M Bukovic's List: microsoft

• Match your TV service with TiVo

• Mr. Brass is understandably a little perturbed that some people say Apple’s iPad might change the

• Measuring Our Work by Its Broad Impact
• we think about innovation in relation to its ability to have a positive impact in the world. For Microsoft, it is not sufficient to simply have a good idea, or a great idea, or even a cool idea. We measure our work by its broad impact.
• matters is innovation at scale, not just innovation at speed

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• Why Microsoft really, really, hates the cloud
• is anything but an anti-Microsoft pamphlet. It’s an analysis — cold, objective and financial — of the potential impacts of the Cloud Computing Tsunami on the finances of Microsoft.
• his graph shows the distribution of Microsoft’s earnings by product lines, over the past thr

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• Microsoft's Live Skydrive online storage service goes beta

• Why H.264?

• Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode

• Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

• Qualcomm sampling first 1.2 Ghz Snapdragon processors

• The cloud opens up a broader IT spending pie. In cloud computing, software, hardware and services blend together. You don’t buy servers. You buy capacity. Klein said:

• Bill Gates on in-person vs. online education

• Test SharePoint on your computer to learn how you can you

• The acquisition underlines Intel’s bet on “hardware-enhanced security” and demonstrates that that security is a necessary component as the tech company’s reach expands to handle billions of new Internet-ready devices, such as mobile phones and computers, TVs, cars, medical devices and ATM machines.

• Analyst: 'It is game over for Microsoft in consumer'
• 2010 will be The year of Platform Wars
• 010 will be The year of Operating System Wars
• All content goes mobile
• multi-channeled
• Everything gets tagged
• and the walled gardens open up
• watching first-run TV and movies on phones, for a price.
• MobileApps and Mobile Content drive MicroPayments
• Payment for content will split along age lines, at around 35; above, pay; below, don’t pay
• enterprise vs. consumer)
• he Phone vs. the PC
• phone is now the most interesting computer platform, and it is driving innovation: software, business models, distribution. Netbooks are next up as drivers
• There will be a Cloud Catastrophe in 2010 that limits Cloud growth
• cloud as the doorstep for industrial espionage
• A huge chasm opens in computing, between Consumer and Enterprise (government/business.), with Apple, Google and most Asian hardware companies in Consumer, and Dell, IBM, Cisco, and MS on the Enterprise side.
• Before 2010, talk was all about unifying consumer and enterprise. Now, talk will be about their split.
• t is Game Over for MS in Consumer.
• will make Consumer the place to be, where the most robust and exciting change artists will work.
• News media that survive will move to the subscription mode
• Connecting remote data to people and things in real time will lead to a series of exciting new devices and applications
• chasm between consumer and enterprise that could really spell doom
• Ozzie
• ” of three screens and the cloud will ever come to pass. Part of the problem is Microsoft cannot recover from its mobile failure, Anderson claims
• mportance of connecting front-end platforms that can integrate tightly to a strong back-end platform isn’t resonating
• customers are more interested in the fully-integrated user interfaces (with apps, marketplaces and the like) with an OK, but not great, back-end integration story
• Apple, Android and others are better positioned here and going to win,
• culturally in Microsoft’s dog-eat-dog culture
• three-screens vision and “consumer experiences first” push don’t resonate with users, will he want or need to stay?

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• Microsoft's S+S Strategy Grows Up

   

  "Three screens and the cloud" is the updated take on Microsoft's Software plus Services strategy.

     
   
  • By Mary Jo Foley
  • 11/01/2009
• "three screens" metaphor much thought. It just means that Microsoft sees devices, PCs and TVs able to connect,
• Ballmer got serious. He described the cloud as more than just a delivery mechanism for applications
• people are going to want applications, I'll call them that, or services
• y're going to want things that service them across those environments."
• dated take on Microsoft's Software plus Services (S+S) cloud-computing strategy.
• s the Zune Video service
• et of services that are common across devices, PCs and TVs
• introducing common "user experiences" across these categories of devices
• Windows Phones, Windows MediaRoom, Windows Azure and the Windows operating system
• Google, a cloud vendor trying to figure out a strategy to control screens
• pple, a screen vendor that has little more than half a cloud strategy.

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