Microsoft
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The Cloudless Cloud Company
So, “superclouds”, eh? The term seems to have been coined by SiliconAngle, almost as an aside, in a subtitle, accompanied by the briefest of definitions: A new cloud architecture takes shape: “superclouds” Today, any company can have a fully built-out platform in the cloud. Venture capitalist Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners calls this phenomenon “castles…
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Tweetstorm Digest: Reactions to Barron’s “IBM’s Reboot” Story
Some @charlesfitz reactions to Barron’s excitedly bullish cover story on IBM. I for one was excited they used “Lost Decade” on the cover! Twitter thread repeated here: Barron’s makes its semi-regular pitch for IBM’s imminent reincarnation in this week’s cover story 🧵 /1 Despite a lede calling Watson “one of the greatest coups in the…
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The Minesweeper Moment
Shortly after Windows 3.0 shipped, we rounded up and shipped some of the games floating around inside Microsoft, most of which were byproducts of developers teaching themselves to program Windows. Minesweeper was one of the games in the first Entertainment Pack for Windows (tagline: “It’s not just the most fun you can have with Windows,…