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These days making in a dent in your competitor’s efforts means dominating all channels of business and communication, even those areas that are not core to a company’s strategy and branding. In the enterprise software and communications space, few do it well like Salesforce.com ad in the last couple of years; the company led by [...]
November 12th, 2012 by SiteTrail
Google is the king of search, that much is undisputed; but the search giant has been having some trouble over in Europe of late and those troubles seem to have infected its search market share. Recent rulings against the search giant in France and the UK have left Google vulnerable to competitors like Microsoft who [...]
November 11th, 2012 by Anthony West
Windows 8 is live and so too is Microsoft’s entry into the apps marketplace. The company’s Windows 8 App store has just 5,000 application compared to the nearly 700,000 that are found in Apple’s iTunes store. So what does Microsoft plan to do to increase the numbers? Tap student developers, of course. Microsoft seems ready [...]
November 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
If there was any doubt about the competitiveness in the computing and software industry, the latest round of figures detailing yearly R&D spends should surely put those doubts to rest. At a time when most companies are struggling to make $1 billion a year in actual revenues, some companies are spending multiples of that on [...]
November 2nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer has made a bold prediction about the sales projections for Windows 8: “400 million Windows 8 installations by the end of 2013”. The thing is, before you reach 400 million, you at least have to pass 4 million and by the looks of things, Windows 8 might just meet Ballmer’s perdition. [...]
November 1st, 2012 by Anthony West
Windows 8 is here with all its tantalizing new features and naturally Windows users everywhere are poised to jump on Microsoft’s latest bandwagon. But there’s a lot to consider before you upgrade and with so much ‘noise’ out there at the moment, it helps to tread carefully. I’ll take you through the ‘how to’ of [...]
October 29th, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft has just released Windows 8 and like all other versions of Windows, it comes with Internet Explorer pre-installed. The latest version of course is Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) and already it is causing problems. We recently covered Microsoft’s bundling policy and how it impacts on users, but there is another feature that is causing [...]
October 28th, 2012 by Anthony West
The date was penciled in ages ago and for die-hearted Windows software users, October 25, 2012 couldn’t come soon enough. Well, that momentous day came and by all accounts Microsoft didn’t disappoint. The software giant chose New York as the Launchpad for the release in what many are calling the biggest revamp of Windows in [...]
October 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
If you are having trouble getting your tweets to go through it’s probably because you are one of the millions of people still using Internet Explorer 8. The question is why?! Twitter became of aware of the issue recently and like most smart social platforms it offered the most logical and sensible advice possible: “switch [...]
October 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
Reviewers feel that to date, Microsoft Surface, running with Windows RT and Windows 8, is perhaps one of the most productive tablets the market has seen. Given that it is Microsoft Windows based, the obvious advantage against Apple’s iPad Mini and iPad 4 is that it would have more functionality in the workplace. Now there [...]
October 26th, 2012 by SiteTrail
Microsoft has been busy updating the Xbox marketplace and has come full circle with its inclusion of Internet Explorer, version 9 of which has now been added to the list of apps available to gamers. But any gamer will notice the glaring omission of Facebook and Twitter—two apps which 99% of gamers would have accessed [...]
October 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
It looks like Microsoft finally got it right—after 8 tries. According to new results from a test conducted by PC Magazine, Windows’ next incarnation, Windows 8 boots 55% faster than Windows 7. Windows 8 is clearly aimed at revolutionizing the tablet market and for Microsoft to claim it’s portion of one of the strongest trends, [...]
October 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple had a blockbuster launch of the iPhone 5 and it looks like Microsoft is having its own version of the ‘run on the iPhone’ with the launch of its Surface tablet. The Surface RT tablet actually goes on sale October 26 but Microsoft been allowing people to pre-order the device ahead of the launch [...]
October 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
Skype has seen its fair share of competitors in recent years and many thought that when Microsoft acquired the company last year, the popular VOIP platform would see a decline in its popularity. Well, the so-called ‘Microsoft effect’ hasn’t materialized and Skype is now more popular than ever; in fact, many would argue that the [...]
October 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Zune was Microsoft’s answer to the iPod, but like all other comers Apple didn’t have problem making them irrelevant. Despite the lack of success with Zune however, Microsoft kept faith in its ability offer a competitive streaming alternative and out of that Xbox Music was born. The new streaming service is more than its name [...]
October 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft doesn’t seemed to have learned much from its anti-trust troubles in Europe which to date has cost the company over $2 billion in fines. Now new reports are surfacing that the software giant may be in trouble again over its continued bundling of Internet Explorer with its operating system, while not giving users adequate [...]
October 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
Internet Explorer (IE) is about to get its 10th iteration when new Windows 8 computers ship in the coming weeks but its older off-springs are not doing so well. Earlier this year Microsoft announced that it will cease support for IE6 and now data is revealing a decline in market share for IE8. According to [...]
October 11th, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft is having such a good year that it looks like the software giant is doing a few things just for the heck of it. One of those things is the recent hosting of a coding marathon in Bangalore, India. The event which saw 2,567 hard-core coders take part was significant to get an entry [...]
October 5th, 2012 by Anthony West
