This week was Microsoft Ignite. After Build, where Microsoft set the bar for large-scale events, I was expecting to be impressed. Microsoft didn’t disappoint, and they made several improvements event over event to increase engagement. While none of these events […]
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The Microsoft Store experiment just ended, and the result wasn’t pretty. Designed to be a competitive response to the Apple Store, it largely repeated the recurring mistake that Steve Ballmer made with every failed project. It was a good idea
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Intel is a sponsor of TechSpective Data is the fuel that drives business, which is why it’s also a primary target. Protecting data has always been a challenge, but cloud computing, containers, SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications, mobile devices, and IoT (internet
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I like to watch old westerns, and there is a common thread that weaves through them that showcases that the lack of cooperation between the states led to profitable criminal organizations, which made living in the Old West very risky.
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This week Microsoft shipped their new Edge Browser. I’m both impressed with how much easier this browser has made my life and that the word shipped, in this context, really isn’t appropriate anymore. Increasingly we get our software as a
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Earlier this week I was at an event at the New York Stock Exchange put on by BlackBerry’s CEO, John Chen. I’ve known John for several years, and he is one of my favorite CEOs to visit because he just
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Foldable phones are now a thing, and both Microsoft and Samsung are chasing this opportunity in a reasonable effort to take even more market share from Apple. Samsung Galaxy Fold is arguably on its second version, and the Surface Duo
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Last week was Computex and just keeping up with the interesting announcements became a full-time job. One of the more interesting announcements was NVIDIA’s EGX platform which appears to be ideally designed for a 5G world where backhaul bottlenecking is
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This month must be “Get Serious Month” for BlackBerry, Cisco, and Microsoft, because two of these firms’ CEOs came out personally very strongly on privacy and the third—Cisco—released a powerful study that points dramatically to the need for privacy protection
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Though it slipped beneath some radars during CES 2019, the full implications of a Microsoft announcement reemerged a week later at the National Retail Federation (NRF2019) conference in New York. In the original press release, Microsoft and Kroger announced Retail
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