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Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

T-Mobile Sidekick data failure probably due to deliberate sabotage and Microsoft cluelessness

Insiders from Danger, the Microsoft subsidiary that handled Sidekick data storage say Microsoft execs are ‘clueless idiots’ who botched everything from the start.
This does not appear to be sour grapes. Read the Apple Insider article. It describes a Microsoft culture that must replace any technology not invented by them. (Danger ran under an Oracle database) [...]

Microsoft has turned the corner

So says mini-Microsoft, a blog anonymously written by a Microsoft employee that often can be scathing. But no more. He says Microsoft is now doing everything right. Why?
- Windows 7 is a superior product. This often from geeks who assumed it would suck.
- Bing is a seriously good search engine.
- Silverlight is a “Flash-killer.”
Also
- Office [...]

The Borg is back in town

All reports are that Windows 7, Microsoft’s coming replacement for Vista, is seriously good, bug-free, and powerful. This is even coming from hardcore geeks who loathe Vista and expected to hate Windows 7. Instead, they like it.
Microsoft recently released Bing, their new search engine. The same thing is happening. Reviewers who assumed they would mock [...]

Microsoft cloudy about The Cloud

Amazon Web Services is widely used by websites to host their back-end processing, databases, and for file storage. Prices are quite low plus it saves the websites from having to do complicated hosting. This is called cloud computing, everything lives on the Net and can be accessed from anywhere.
Google just jumped into this big time [...]