Microsoft and Box heat up the cloud
The race to build a winning platform for files in the cloud warmed some more today with Microsoft’s Hotmail makeover and Box’s $125m funding round
First appstore experience on a Windows 8 Tablet: the Chrome web store
From 2011-09-13 I am at Microsoft Build where the company is taking the wraps off its new tablet-friendly Windows 8 operating system. No freebies for influencers at BUILD (fail!) but the developers here will all be taking home the shiny. I can’t give you the specs of the machine – its under NDA til later […]
Learn from the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)
A few hundred thousand (numbers range from 150k to 500K) Gmail and Google Apps users had the scary experience of losing ALL their email content yesterday. Their account was accidentally “reset”. Google acknowledged the error, and issued a statement that they are working on restoring “lost” content. Let’s stop and think here a minute. Is […]
Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!
In the 90’s I used to laugh at friends who all used Yahoo! as their personal email service. I did not understand how anyone could put up with the slow speeds of web-mail, and tried to convince them to install a decent email client, like Outlook, which is what most of them used in their […]
Okay Here Goes CRM Forecast 2010 PART II
I’d go over to ZDNet for Part I of this forecast (released at the exact same time as this one) if you want to read the intro, the Latin American 2010 Forecast from Jesus Hoyos and the first five…
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Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After Microsoft Dumps Don
It’s less than two weeks ago that Microsoft let Don Dodge go, along with 5,000 other employees. He parted gracefully, then soon posted: Getting dumped by Microsoft was a life changing event…for the better. The future is very bright. The opportunities are amazing. Don probably set a World Record in the speed of getting a […]
