Photo Credit: Mark Lennihan, AP Microsoft’s decades-old plan has been to bring a Pocket PC to market that leveraged the power of Windows and a synergy of Microsoft’s cloud, apps, services and hardware ecosystem. Previous iterations of Windows-on-Mobile (Windows Mobile, Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile) on traditional slate phone hardware failed to help […]
“Some may contend no one wants a phone that big. This is true. But many people do want a tablet that small. It’s all about how this 7” Surface is positioned and marketed.” – Jason L Ward Rumors, Rumors Rumors Early last year rumors began to spill that Microsoft was soon to release a new […]
A World of Change Last week, on Wednesday January 21st, 2015 Microsoft introduced to the world a host of new products that have breathed life into a company that to many was going kind of stale. Think IBM. A powerful industry leading behemoth yes, but consumer friendly, desirable, cool (with the exception of Xbox) not […]
Several months ago, Julie Larson-Green, Chief Experience Officer of Microsoft’s “My Life and Work” team, was quoted as saying, “The short answer is, yeah,” in response to the query asking if there were plans to bring Cortana, Microsoft’s very personal digital assistant, to other operating systems. This naturally set off a firestorm of articles and […]
The Microsoft HoloLens. Yes this was Microsoft’s surprise announcement that dripped icing all over a cake that already had onlookers salivating. What is the HoloLens? Well in general terms it is Microsoft’s harbinger and facilitator of what they have dubbed the “Era of Holographic Computing”. In technical terms it is a standalone, wearable computer outfitted with cameras, speakers, a microphone and a host […]