“Our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform,” Microsoft said in the 10-K filed for the second calendar quarter of 2012.
Really? You think?
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Microsoft’s Lost Decade
Vanity Fair has a great article about how Microsoft has become an underdog, after being the largest force in technology during the nineties. How Steve Ballmer still is the CEO, I’ll never understand.
Microsoft vs. Motorola decision sees Droids banned in Germany over FAT patent
The latest development in our neverending saga of worldwide patentwarfare is a decision by a Mannheim judge banning Motorola’s Android devices on the basis that they violate a FAT storage patent owned by Microsoft.
At this rate, they should change Android’s name to Cloner.
Microsoft to deliver Office for Mac 2011 SkyDrive update, no new 2013 edition
“We haven’t announced the next release of Office for Mac,” says a Microsoft spokesperson.
No Office 2013 for Mac, just an update to add SkyDrive functionality. That doesn’t mean there won’t be a new version for Mac, just not yet.
Windows XP and Vista: No Office 2013 for you
Microsoft confirmed yesterday that the new Office 2013 will not run on older PCs powered by Windows XP or Vista.
“The new Office will work with Windows 7 and Windows 8,” a Microsoft spokesperson said Monday in an email reply to questions about Office 2013 and Office 365. “Vista or XP will not support the new Office.”
The “Appleification” of Microsoft continues, gone are the days of eternal legacy support. Good for them, it’s annoying sometimes, but it’s the only way to move forward.
Concept: A Blackberry Windows Phone.
This thing won’t happen, but it looks cool.
Microsoft to open store at Plaza las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Microsoft announced on their Twitter account, that they will open one of their retail stores in Plaza las Americas in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
If you want to buy a PC, this is going to be a great option. At their stores, Microsoft sells only Signature PCs. What this means, is that those PCs will not have any other software installed (crapware). You can go to their page and take a look. There are also rumors of an Apple Store coming to San Juan, but in typical Apple fashion, nothing is confirmed. We can only hope.
Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
John Gruber at Daring Fireball:
Watching the Microsoft Surface event video, I sensed uneasiness. Not panic, but discomfort. Some will argue that I’m simply spoiled by Apple’s on-stage polish, but Monday’s Microsoft event struck me as rushed and severely under-rehearsed. Ballmer offered nothing but blustering bromides, and nothing even vaguely resembling a coherent answer to the big question: Why? Steven Sinofsky was nervous and hurried. It didn’t help that his first Surface RT unit crashed before he’d done anything other than wake it up. There was a moment where he said Surface was perfect for sitting down, relaxing in a chair, and watching a movie. He sat in that chair for about three seconds before rushing into the next segment.
I had the same impression watching the keynote. The moment Sinofsky rushed to the table to swap the tablet that just crashed in his hands, was painful. Imagine if something like that happens at an Apple event.
