100 ms Latency of Touchscreens Is Too Much
This video by Microsoft nicely demonstrates the problem and sets the bar to jump – 1 ms. Via TechCrunch
View ArticleWindows 8: The Big And Risky Bet of Microsoft
Daring Fireball linked this video accompanying a review of Windows 8 by Michael Mace. I agree with John and Michael in that the Windows 8 are bigger change than the techies think and therefore it is...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface Video
I found it interesting that the video is so, shall I say, technology-oriented? The magnesium body is presented as the main feature as we are wathing the dust turn to liquid metal blobs jumping and...
View ArticleSurface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
John Gruber (Daring Fireball) in one of his best pieces yet. Microsoft Surface is not fundamentally about Microsoft needing to control the entire integrated product in order to compete with the iPad on...
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Bill Gates Interviewed by Charlie Rose
I admire Gates’ approach to phillatrophy, I disagree with his (and Microsoft’s) view, that Surface will be the best of both the desktop PC and tablet – as Microsoft’s repeated many times “no...
View ArticleWired Reviews Microsoft Surface
This is a great device. It is a new thing, in a new space, and likely to confuse many of Microsoft’s longtime customers. People will have problems with applications — especially when they encounter...
View ArticleThe Verge Reviews Microsoft Surface
The promise of the Surface was that it could deliver a best-in-class tablet experience, but then transform into the PC you needed when heavier lifting was required. Instead of putting down my tablet...
View ArticleJakob Nielsen on Windows 8
Alertbox, November 19, 2012: Hidden features, reduced discoverability, cognitive overhead from dual environments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low information density. Too bad.
View ArticleAsymco: Below the Surface
Horace Dediu brilliant as usual: Microsoft’s problem is not that it has difficulty offering an operating system for tablets. The problem is that the economics of both systems and application software...
View ArticleApple fans: Microsoft is no longer the enemy
Brent Simmons writing for Macworld: One of the guys who works on Windows Azure Mobile Services gave me a demo of its support for iOS. What? Microsoft supporting iOS? What? That isn’t the Microsoft (I...
View ArticleOn PC Industry And Dell Especially
Michael Mace dissecting PC industry: The PC companies married themselves to the Microsoft-Intel growth engine years ago. In exchange for riding the Wintel wave, they long ago gave up on independent...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft’s Reorganization Is a Bad Idea
Another great post by Ben Thompson over at stratēchery: Steve Ballmer restructured Microsoft yesterday as a functional organization. The immensity of this change can not be understated, nor can the...
View ArticleThe Deal That Makes No Sense
Ben Thompson writing about Microsoft acquiring Nokia nails it, I think: I theorize that Nokia was either going to switch to Android or on the verge of going bankrupt. (I suspect the latter: part of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Customers Always Win
Marco Arment writing: They did everything that the press, analysts, and prevailing wisdom at the time were telling them to do. Everyone was pressuring them to be more like Apple, so they tried. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft Is Changing
Another one by Ben Thompson about how Microsoft is seemingly becoming in terms with the new reality: The cloud, though, changes that. Once you remove the burden of support and maintenance – that’s...
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