Microsoft Ignite starts on November 19th this year. While there will be a lot of product updates and status reports on Microsoft Copilot and other Microsoft AI tools, the real benefit of this show will likely have far less to […]
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Since June, Qualcomm has had a significant laptop advantage over the more traditional processor suppliers like AMD and Intel. That changed this week when Microsoft and AMD announced that laptops using the Ryzen AI 300 processors will also support CoPilot,
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The launch of Microsoft Copilot is struggling. The people there who know what they are doing are being eclipsed by two things. Too often, they aren’t the ones making critical decisions, and second, someone in the decision tree is starving
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Microsoft Build this year was all about Copilot, which will span Microsoft’s offerings. While any current computer can run Copilot, only special AI PCs run Copilot+. Copilot+ gets you to a whole different level of AI experiences that require the
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Twenty years ago, NVIDIA and Microsoft were nowhere with AI, while IBM’s Watson was winning Jeopardy! and later taking on professional debaters. Conventional knowledge was that IBM was going to own AI, but no one seemed to care since projections
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This week, I’m at Microsoft Ignite. When I first started working with Microsoft over 30 years ago, we were still using MS-DOS with a Windows overlay, and they made me the top launch analyst for Windows 95. Copilot, like that
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Generative AI is a huge and fast-moving event in the market, so most companies don’t know how to implement it properly yet. Microsoft, which effectively drove generative AI into the broader market, and IBM, which was first to create an
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Because I worked with great people, one of my favorite jobs was as a competitive analyst at IBM. That was where the lock-in business model that Apple has embraced first became successful in the computer space. Lock-in has several advantages,
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Two weeks ago, Microsoft hosted its big developer conference, Build. This week, Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference, and the two events couldn’t have been more different. While both events were promoted as being for developers, they contrasted the companies’
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There have been a lot of discussions about bad store practices of late in which Apple ends up consistently in the hot seat for overcharging for services that are provided by the application developer, not Apple. I’m amazed that any
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