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Microsoft Missing the Boat on Mobile?
by Tim O'Reilly
Yesterday's Microsoft Watch had an incisive article about Microsoft's failure to compete in the mobile phone marketplace. Echoing my own assertions that Microsoft's obsessive focus on competition with Google in search is a massive distraction, while open mobile is Google's most strategic initiative, Joe Wilcox notes: Microsoft must change its priorities. The company has wasted too much time chasing... |
David Chappell's Taxonomy of Cloud Platforms and Microsoft
by John Osborn
Microsoft's response to the emerging cloud computing platforms of Amazon, Google, and Yahoo has been spotty to say the least. Now a new white paper from distributed computing maven David Chappell proposes a taxonomy for classifying what's available today and offers a map of where Microsoft may be headed. |
Harmony comes to JavaScript, but Not Everyone's Singing
by Kurt Cagle
A long and contentious struggle came to an end this week as ECMA Technical Committee 39, responsible for the development and maintenance of ECMAScript (known universally everywhere else as JavaScript), voted to establish ECMAScript 3.1 as the next "trunk" branch for the venerable web browser language, rather than the more ambitious (and contentious ECMAScript 4.0). While the breaking of the deadlock is a momentous achievement, not everyone is happy with it. |
GooHoo Makes Microsoft Go Boohoo
by Kurt Cagle
While the advertising deal between Google and Yahoo! does not announce a formal "merger" of the two companies, it nonetheless signals a profound shift in the online search world, and certainly increases the likelihood that the two companies will begin a more active partnership across a broad front of activities, to the significant detriment of the company that needed a partnership most desperately with Yahoo! ... Microsoft. |
Microsoft Research offers a sampling in Cambridge, Massachusetts
by Andy Oram
The opening of Microsoft Research's latest facility was celebrated
today with a free one-day symposium here in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I think the symposium succeeded in its goals of showing that the
research facility is an independent entity that plays by the rules of
open scientific debate and funds basic research of value to society. |
Is Adobe Still Sleeping Well?
by Mike Hendrickson
Last May, Tim O'Reilly posted a piece on whether or not Adobe was worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft. In a nutshell, the answer was no. From a book sales perspective, that was true and remains true today. But there is more to that answer than what... |
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