The New Engagement Platform Drives The Shift From Transactions
Convergence In The Five Forces Of Consumerization Of Technology Drives The Next Big Thing Social has given us the tools to connect. Mobile has given us the ability to interact any time and anywhere. Cloud delivers access points to us with a rich array of content and information. Big data provides us with the context [...]
Event Report: Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2012 #wpc12
Microsoft Provides The Passion And Products For Partners To Compete In A Post PC Era Microsoft kicked off its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada amidst 16,000 partners (See Figure 1). Attendees caught the latest news and product announcements while sharing new business models and products for a post PC era. Key announcements for Day [...]
The Windows 8/Metro Challenge: Good for the Enterprise, Not So Good for Apple and Google
Microsoft’s TechEd conference this week showcased more than just Windows 8 and its amazingly well-designed Metro touch-based user interface. It also heralded what may prove to be a tectonic shift in the strategic position of Microsoft in the enterprise. And with that shift may come an equal, and opposite, shift in the fortunes of Google [...]
The Innovator’s Dilemma Meets (and Eats) the Cash Cow at Microsoft
Microsoft is frequently cited as an undervalued stock and a profit machine. But the Innovator’s Dilemma is meeting the BCG Matrix at Microsoft – right now – as the advent of cloud computing destroys the value – and profitability – of their primary Windows and Offices franchises. To the company’s credit, they have recognized the challenge and aggressively attempted to respond, but [...]
Mac vs PC: A Picture is Worth 1000 Words
I saw this over at Google+ (second thing I’ve posted from there): These are McDonald’s instructions for how to connect to WiFi. If you have XP, a full page plus another third of a page. Vista is a little better, taking essentially a page. Maybe there is some progress in Redmond, after all. On the [...]
Remember HP’s New Wave? Here We Go Again!
Sam Diaz has gotten clarification on the future of Windows in the light of their Web OS announcements. It should come as no surprise that Windows isn’t going anywhere, and certainly won’t be replaced by Web OS any time soon. Instead, HP is saying: HP will integrate the WebOS experience into Windows, but not through [...]
ChromeOS, the web platform for them, not me
Image via Wikipedia It seems the network computer is an idea that, like a zombie army, resolutely refuses to lie down and die. A discussion thread within the Enterprise Irregulars group this week started off with an observation about where Google expects to find market demand for its ChromeOS: “Businesses are accelerating in their adoption [...]
The badge of pride now should be how long it has been since you left your computer on overnight!
I’m an IT guy. I love my (Mac) computer. Most other IT people I know love their computers too, be they Mac, Windows or *nix based. Of course you would when you are typically working on them 8+ hours per day. We take pride in our computers – how fast they are, the latest software/widget [...]
