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 saw the start of the Professional Developers Conference, for those that were unaware. It started at 9, Seattle time, with Steve Ballmer taking the stage for the keynote. First Ballmer spoke about the number of attendees at the event, despite only have 1000 attendees in Building 33 it was actually the biggest PDC Microsoft [...]

Despite Apple’s major announcement only being an hour away it hasn’t stopped Microsoft also announcing lots today at their tech ed North America conference and on the internet. I doubt many of you are particularly interested in the business side of the announcements, I know I don’t understand most of it and I couldn’t even [...]

or Windows Live Wave 4: The Grand Scheme This post relies heavily on some of my previous predictions and thoughts on what could be coming in Wave 4 so you might want to have a look at them before reading this: Windows Live Wave 4: Video | SP1 (Additional predictions and reasons) Windows Live Wave [...]

With Office Web Apps being released to testers this week it got me thinking about Microsoft’s Software + Services strategy as we can now see the Office service in the cloud to accompany the software on PCs. So what other combinations are there from Microsoft that fulfil the Software + Services strategy? Current Software + [...]

My understanding of Cloud computer and how it works is limited so I might be way off the mark with this! We know that the Apple fell and so helped Newton to prove gravity existed but I have started to wonder whether it is possible for the Apple to rise up to the Cloud. Microsoft [...]