Microsoft

Windows 8 Will Impact Microsoft’s Presence Even Outside of the Desktop

by Mike Mansell September 23, 2011

Considering Microsoft’s on-off history with releasing successful operating systems it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Microsoft’s success with the Windows platform from here on out (in a world where Apple is thriving and consumer-focused Linux distributions are popping up like advertisements for Internet Explorer users) rests on their ability to make another [...]

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I’m Skeptical About the Future of Bing

by Mike Mansell September 21, 2011

After spending to years and billions of dollars to build Bing, Microsoft doesn’t have much to show for it. Which is why I’m skeptical about the future of Bing.

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Windows 8 to Run Windows Phone Applications

by Mike Mansell September 8, 2011

Anyone who remotely follows Microsoft’s release cycle of the Windows operating system has likely noticed the somewhat obvious fact that Microsoft’s success with each release is spotty at best. Sure, Windows 7 has been on the market for a while now and has achieved a pretty outstanding adoption rate and has earned a killer reputation [...]

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Twitter and Bing’s Awkward Tweet Conversation Raises Questions

by Jeff Weisbein September 6, 2011

In a rather odd and clearly scripted conversation on Twitter (screenshot below), it appears that both Twitter and Bing may be working on some kind of new partnership. It could be further integration of Twitter within Bing or perhaps even other Microsoft services and products. Whatever it is, we don’t know at this point. Nonetheless, [...]

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Microsoft Implements Ribbon UI in Windows 8 Explorer

by Mike Mansell August 30, 2011

There’s no denying the fact that Microsoft has been walking on egg shells a bit in the last couple of years after having publicly humiliated itself with the failure of Windows Vista (something that many people still refer to even to this day) and the less than admirable reputation that many of the company’s other offerings [...]

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Is RIM A Target for Acquisition?

by Mike Mansell August 17, 2011

Google’s recent acquisition of Motorola has left many of us questioning if RIM is next in line to be acquired? While RIM isn’t exactly producing cutting edge technology right now and their efforts in the past years (the BlackBerry Torch and the BlackBerry PlayBook) have been somewhat pitiful are they appealing enough?

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The Google Patent Hypocrisy

by Mike Mansell August 1, 2011

If you asked me to name one thing – in business and in life – that drives me up the wall it would hands-down be hypocrites. That said, I realize that people are never going to see eye-to-eye all the time, and in all honesty I think that differing opinions on various subjects ultimately does quite a bit of good by brining issues into the open and forcing people to make an attempt at solving things.

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Will Windows Phone Mango Be a Hit?

by Mike Mansell July 28, 2011

It seems that “Mango”, the latest version of Microsoft’s recently revamped Windows Mobile operating system for mobile phones, is just around the corner. This week we’ve seen news that manufacturers have received a copy of the operating system that has been confirmed to be close to the final release. On top of the debut of [...]

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Four FREE Deals That No Student Should Pass Up

by Mike Mansell July 12, 2011

Regardless of what culture or society you were brought up in your parents, if anything like my own, did their best to teach you the importance of education; oftentimes calling it “priceless.” But as we grow up, we realize that education in many countries does indeed have a price, and a steep one at that. So it’s needless to say that students like myself are always keeping an eye out for great deals in order to offset the price of higher education.

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Could a Microsoft/Baidu Partnership Compete with Google?

by Mike Mansell July 6, 2011

Serving China, a country with four-hundred and fifty million users online, Baidu is, as it stands, a popular search engine primarily focused on the Chinese market. The search engine in itself has been around for quite some time now, but with Google’s move to pull out of China in March of last year the search engine has become what many see as the go-to search engine in China.

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