Tagged:  Microsoft

By Gerry Reid, September 29, 2011 Comments Off Opinion, Technology

“Microsoft and Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that they also will work together to develop and market Microsoft’s Windows Phone software” This is an Android licensing agreement for Samsung but more importantly this is in response to Googles acquisition of Motorola. Google is now… Read More »

By Gerry Reid, August 1, 2011 Comments Off

Check out the new Windows phone logo re-branding, wait for it, brace yourself….. yes its square, no longer round, square, well this will really turn around their miserableness mobile market penetration. Good work MS that’s another 100 million in R&D well spent no… Read More »

By Gerry Reid, August 1, 2011 Comments Off Opinion

According to Mac daily news “Microsoft outspends Apple by every measure. In raw dollars, Microsoft outspent Apple $7.121 billion to $782 million in 2007 — a ratio of more that 9 to 1 (this was the year Apple released the… Read More »

By Gerry Reid, July 28, 2011 Comments Off

The phone sports a 3.7-inch WVGA screen, the same 1 GHz Qualcomm processor, and 32GB of internal storage. Click the above thumbnails and decide for yourself Ugly, Ugly phone

By Gerry Reid, July 19, 2011 Comments Off News

Business Insider is reporting a surprising rumor that Microsoft my be considering dumping the venerable Windows brand, not actually discontinuing the Windows OS of course, but perhaps renaming Windows 8 or 9 to something different. This reason for this radical change? Well… Read More »

By Gerry Reid, July 14, 2011 Comments Off

After billions of Dollars MS Bing search market share is going nowhere fast, I would say from a search quality standpoint its actually getting worse, Im starting to see 2 results for the same webpage on page 1, just lazy and stupid. (click the… Read More »

By Gerry Reid, July 12, 2011 Comments Off News, Technology

Is Skype replacing Microsoft Lync? (formally MS communications server) According to insiders, Microsoft basically bought Skype to make a bigger move into IP communications. That’s similar to how Microsoft bought aQuantive for $6 billion in 2007 to make a bigger… Read More »

By Gerry Reid, July 10, 2011 Comments Off IT Tech, Opinion

Microsoft and Yahoo signed a 10 year agreement in June 2009 to make Microsoft’s Bing search engine the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo sites As a result my company was forced to move to MS AdCenter from Yahoo Overture… Read More »

By Gerry Reid, July 9, 2011 Comments Off Opinion

Balmer Must go!! Its seems all is not well in Micrososft land, with over 60,000 employees, the ship that is MS with captain Balmer in charge, is drifting off course, and heading to who knows where, regardless of the impending Titanic /… Read More »

By Gerry Reid, July 9, 2011 Comments Off Opinion, Technology

Background: The Microsoft Kin (AKA Project Pink) was launched on May the 6th 2010 last year, it was estimated to have cost MS almost a billion dollars to develop and market, Microsoft announced two Kin models, both available online on May… Read More »