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The Holidays are coming and here come the tablets!!
It does not seem a day goes by where the tech news is not lit ablaze with news of the latest tablet coming to market. This week alone there is news about the pricing of the Microsoft Surface. The...
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Ballmer trying to make Microsoft more like Apple
Not that long ago a headline like this would have been an obvious April fool’s joke. To be honest only a real idiot would have fallen for it. But in his recent letter to shareholders that is...
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The Smart Network
For those consumers of fine film I shall take you back in time to the James Cameron classic “Terminator”. Where Arnold Schwarzenegger first graced our screen (Conan was first but that was so-so bad)...
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Immigration Reform and the Tech Sector
In the technology sector this issue has been on the forefront for at least 15 years, perhaps longer. the ability to hire talent. A tech company is only as good as the engineers, software developers,...
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GoogleZon
In 2007 this video began to go viral in the tech sector discussing the future of media and the role of a potential giant Googlezon. The potential merger of two giants of the internet age, Google and...
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State of Tech…2012 was a non eventful year
The Technology industry always moves fast and is always forging ahead but I can’t help but think this past year has been a bit disappointing. When I look at the big guys I did not really hear anything...
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Microsoft’s Dark Archangel Joachim Kempin Returns
There are a lot of technology industry legends that came from Microsoft. People who shaped the industry and brought about the PC revolution. Many are revered, and a few are even feared. During...
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Microsoft – Threats and Opportunities
It is an industry legend and the company, along with Apple that started the PC revolution. It brought technology to our desks and to our homes. It created a lot of young millionaires. It was a...
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The Drone Wars
With the recent flack about the Obama administrations leaked memo regarding drones being used in the United States by our government, I wanted to tackle the issue as it has been on my mind for quite...
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Facebook – Threats and Opportunities
For a company so young it seems odd to be writing a blog about major competitive threats, usually reserved for more mature organizations, but at the same time it makes a whole lot of sense. In the...
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Microsoft’s ultimate threat – Google
When I first joined Microsoft in 1991 we were a company rapidly ascending to the top of the mountain. We were a company trying to fulfill our destiny, “A PC on every desktop and in every home”. To...
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The Death of the Windows Operating System
I wrote this nearly 3 years ago…with today’s poor PC Shipment numbers I thought it was interesting to read what I though and where we are. This was well before Windows 8. I am sure a lot of my former...
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The end of the DUI
On April 4, 2013 Morgan Frick Williams left her home in Seattle and drove her car to her office in downtown Bellevue. Normally Morgan took the bus across the 520 bridge, but on that day she was going...
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High Tech meets Fashion
Back a while in history, a little post dot com boom, Microsoft Research and Development came out with a new gadget that used the FM airwaves to communicate with a watch. It would be released and...
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The Google Decade
It seems to happen in the industry with relative frequency, there always seems to be one. A Juggernaut a company that does everything right and even when it does something wrong it is looked upon...
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The Cultural Phenomena of Technology
It is one of those things that begins with a whisper and then continues to grow louder into the wildest of crashing waterfalls. Sometimes it confronts us in a very direct way and other times it sneaks...
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The Continental
It started innocently enough, following our regular Sunday mass the wife and I decided to go out to breakfast. We were in the University district, where Blessed Sacrament church is located. We walked...
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Bing-ality
Microsoft Bing since its launch has been considered the primary competitor to the behemoth known as Google search. It is a valiant effort in a very lucrative market space. However despite the immense...
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A look at a Microsoft Re-Org
No I am not going to spill oodles of Microsoft gossip about the latest McKinnsey Consulting engineered re-org at Microsoft. In fact I cannot even say that it was McKinnsey that engineered it. Pick your...
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Searching for a Visionary
It’s a funny thing in “geek” land that often the leaders of these companies become almost Hollywood like as they attain fortune and fame. They rarely, if ever look like Richard Gere. They are a cross...
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