I have just received a very entertaining phone call which I think readers of my blog will really appreciate. I’ve written a transcript of how the conversation went. Me: “Hello?” Caller: “Hello, am I speaking to Mr Gillett?” Me: “No, this is his son.” Caller “ Ah ok, I am calling on behalf of Microsoft.” [...]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to approve an absolutely massive increase to the number of generic top level domains (GTLDs) and as far as I can tell no one is happy about this, this is the most damning analysis of this news I’ve seen yet. The consequence of this [...]

Regular readers will know that I am a big fan of the Metro UI that Microsoft has developed first for Zune and Windows Phone but now also the Xbox 360 and Windows 8. I have written several posts about great Metro designs I have seen by fans and this post is another one of them, [...]

I have previously looked at how well Microsoft is achieving its own aim of “3 screens an the cloud” and thought I’d provide and update following recent announcements and rumours. I am obviously looking at the 4 different platforms along with 5 services. These 5 services can be summarised as: – Windows Live: Personal – [...]

Over the past few months (or ever years) there has been a lot of talk of how Microsoft doesn’t “get” the consumer. The easiest reason for this thought is that the company is often too slow to act. Microsoft has not defined any consumer segment and even when it kind of stumbled into them it [...]

Last night Microsoft held its CES keynote presented by Steve Ballmer, there were some interesting announcements and some disappointing omissions. You can watch the keynote and highlights at the Microsoft News Center. First off Ballmer spoke about the Xbox and announced that in the Spring an update will be released for the Xbox 360 that [...]

I am not sure I have ever seen so many wide-ranging rumours for things that Microsoft might announce and demo at its keynote tonight at CES. There are some rumours that seem very likely to actually be true such as a version of Windows being shown off that runs on ARM processors, details of the [...]

Just thought I would point out to you that Microsoft is the first company, ever, to make playing music and games accessible on the “3 screens” (mobile, computer and TV) and also on the cloud (both directly through a browser and indirectly using the social network element). This small feat happened properly yesterday when Microsoft [...]

Since the beginning of this year I have been writing a series of posts looking at how close Microsoft is to succeeding in its “3 screens and the cloud” strategy. Since Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and a few other products have now been released I thought I would update the numbers from March when I [...]

Yesterday I read an article on The Next Web about why Microsoft should buy the small company Qwiki and I have to say I fully agree with the article and actually have another reason why it should purchase the company; Kinect. Qwiki, for those that don’t know and I didn’t until yesterday, is a start [...]