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Nokia CEO: “I am not a Trojan Horse.”

Maybe, maybe not. Stephen Elop, recent president of Microsoft’s Business Division who in September became CEO of Nokia, claimed on Sunday that he “is not a Trojan Horse,” sent by Microsoft to take over Nokia and steer the ailing company … Continue reading

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Nokia commits suicide, adopts Windows Phone 7

Nokia abandons it’s in-house operating system, Symbian, in favor of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, basically swapping out the smartphone OS with the world’s biggest market share for one with the smallest. Almost no one thinks this is a good idea. … Continue reading

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Paul Thurrott: Microsoft should abandon the consumer market

Microsoft superfan Paul Thurrott believes that Microsoft has failed so miserably in the consumer marketplace that it should pull an IBM and abandon consumers and focus on the area where MS manages to make its money, on enterprise sales. Here’s … Continue reading

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Google dumping Windows in all of its operations

This is a pretty big deal. Will other corporations follow suit once they see such an enormous tech player break ranks with the Windows monopoly? Read the full article at The Financial Times: Google is phasing out the internal use … Continue reading

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Shakeup at Microsoft

Microsoft has just fired several key personnel and completely reorganized it’s entertainment divisions in an (last ditch? desperate?) attempt to breath some life into it’s non-Windows business units, the most successful of which has hemorrhaged billions of dollars over the … Continue reading

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