Posts Tagged ‘windows 8’
The Microsoft Surface Was Made For Surfaces…But That’s Not What Tablets Were Made For
The first Microsoft Surface Ad is out. It’s called “The Surface Movement” (although it probably should be called “Click”). In his article entitled: Marketing Surface and Windows 8, Ben Bajarin focuses on what the ad communicates to potential buyers. My …
Marketing Surface and Windows 8
The first commercial for Microsoft Surface has aired. After seeing it, I’m not sure Microsoft’s partners should be at all worried about the perceived threat of Microsoft competing with them on the hardware front. The commercial itself …
The iPad Mini Hits Windows 8 Where It Ain’t
Tim Bajarin muses on whether it was a mistake for Microsoft to focus Windows 8 on the the larger screen sizes:
When Microsoft decided to get into the tablet business again, it pretty much committed to 9- to 11-inch tablets, mostly …
Battle Of The Tablet Business Models: Lessons Learned And A Look Ahead
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We’ve been looking at the tablet business models of Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung and Microsoft. Today we wrap up the series by seeing what lessons we have learned and by asking ourselves what the various business models can tell us …
Battle Of The Tablet Business Models: Windows 8 And The Microsoft Surface
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We’re looking at the tablet business models of Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung and Microsoft. Today we focus on Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface.
5.0 Windows 8 And The Microsoft Surface
5.1 WHERE DOES WINDOWS 8 AND THE MICROSOFT SURFACE MAKE ITS …
HP’s Future: Apple, IBM–or Dell?
On Oct. 3, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman will give analysts her strategy for restoring the battered tech giant. A close look at the company’s financials and its business suggests that it has the strengths to stay around for a long …
With Apps, Size Matters
Ben Bajarin has written an important article entitled: “Windows 8 Tablet Fragmentation and the App Dilemma“. I highly encourage you to follow the link and read. it.
His main thesis is so important that I’m re-stating it here in the hope …
Windows 8 Tablet Fragmentation and the App Dilemma
I was having a discussion with an iPad software developer recently and we were discussing the iPad mini. Interestingly he was still a skeptic about the iPad mini and I thought his reason was interesting. …
Windows 8 Tablets and Email: A Disaster in the Making
I’m skeptical about Windows 8 as a desktop operating system, but I think it has a lot of potential on tablets. To win a good chunk of the market, however, Microsoft and its OEM partners have to convince buyers, both …
8 Questions For Windows 8
“Make no mistake about it, this is the year for Windows,” ~ Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer
Microsoft CEO, Steve Balmer, has declared this “The Year For Windows”. Is he right? Or is that just wishful thinking on his part? Let’s …
Without Metro Apps, Innovative Touch-based Windows 8 Consumer Hardware is Meaningless
Last week at IFA in Berlin, Germany, HP, Dell, Samsung, and Sony announced some very unique hardware designs for Windows 8. They included touch notebooks, convertibles, sliders, flippers, hybrids, and tablets that can take advantage of Microsoft’s Metro touch-based UI. …
Windows RT Grows More Mysterious as Launch Nears
Microsoft’s Surface Windows RT Tablet
I expected we would be seeing more clarity on the distinctions between Windows 8 and its Windows RT sibling (for ARM processor devices) as the expected late October launch grows closer. But the picture seems …
What Does Microsoft Have Against Email?
Email in Windows 8 is a catastrophe.
I know the cool kids think email is last decade’s technology, but the fact is that it remains a vitally important communications tool for both businesses and consumers. But it gets no respect from …
Deciphering Microsoft’s Latest Windows Blog on Windows RT
For over 20 years, I worked with Microsoft as a customer or a technology partner. Microsoft has a huge job in guiding their enormous Windows ecosystem down certain paths, and over those two decades I have seen …
The Windows 8 UI: Microsoft Makes a Tough Marketing Problem Worse
Over at ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley, master of all things Microsoft, reports sources tell her that having lost the name Metro in an apparent trademark dispute, Microsoft will call the new tile-based user interface for Windows 8 the Windows 8 UI. …
The iPad Put A Fork In Personal Computing
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad in January 2010, he wondered aloud whether there was room between the smartphone and the notebook for a third category of tablet device like the iPad.
Everybody uses a laptop and a smartphone. And a …
The Apple iPad Tablet vs. the Microsoft Surface Anti-Tablet
Last night, Microsoft introduced us to the their Microsoft branded Surface Tablet. Never have we seen such a clear line of demarcation between Apple’s and Microsoft’s visions of what a tablet should be. And at the end of the day, …
Microsoft Should License Surface Technology and Brand to Partners
Microsoft’s Surface PCs are yet to hit the market so it may sound odd for me to propose what I am about to propose. However, the potential impact of a Microsoft branded tablet for their partners is significant …
The Terrible Tablet Tsunami and the Future of Computing
IDC just issued a press release updating their expectations for tablet shipments. Here are their numbers, year by year:
2010: 19.5 million tablet shipments.
2011: 69.6 million tablet shipments.
2012: 107.4 million estimated tablet shipments.
2016: 222.1 million estimated tablet shipments.
When looking at the …
The One Thing I Want to See from Microsoft
I have been following the news coming out of Microsoft’s TechEd conference closely. I was scheduled to attend the event but family circumstances altered my plan. There are a host of things that are of …
Does Apple Love PCs More Than Microsoft?
Does Apple, the post-PC company, have more faith in the future of PCs, than Microsoft?
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The idea may seem a stretch, seeing how Apple’s business is now dominated by iPhones and iPads, but it …
Why My Next Tablet Will Run Windows 8
I’ve been using Windows-based tablet computers for almost a decade. I was hooked the moment Bill Gates trotted out Microsoft’s first prototype tablets at a developer event in mid-2001. I got my first tablet, a Fujitsu Stylistic, in 2003 and …
Two Sides of the Consumer Coin to Windows RT
Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled via a blog the different Windows 8 editions and comparing the different features and functionalities. There are three versions, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows RT. One of the biggest changes in Windows 8 versus previous editions …
Windows on ARM May Get Its Own Brand
The Wall Street Journal‘s Don Clark is reporting that Microsoft is considering calling the version of Windows that will run on ARM chips something other than Windows 8, the name expected to be used for the Intel/AMD version. But I can …
Microsoft Needs to Get its Apps Together
Last week in my Friday column I outlined a few of the challenges that I think Microsoft has in front of them with Windows 8. I cited lack of Windows momentum in the market along with changing …
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