Technology
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A Dispatch from Cloud City
A few end of the year observations from Cloud City (aka Seattle): Image via TK769 Cloud Infrastructure AWS remains a beast. Yet a chink in their armor is emerging… Azure has become the clear challenger to AWS. The much maligned Mr. Ballmer is not getting credit for Microsoft’s embrace and execution on cloud. Unlike most…
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Dinosaur Down: IBM’s Q3 Earnings
The earnings release speaks for itself (love that typeface – they must still do press releases on a Selectric typewriter in the IBM museum), but a few comments: A billion dollar (as in $1,000,000,000) miss on the top line. Everything in varying levels of freefall, led by the swan dive of the hardware business (Power…
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Exploring Alternative History
Bloomberg has a nice piece revisiting the broad vision Microsoft laid out in June 2000 at the grandiosely named Forum 2000. They even have an edited cut of some of the scenario videos developed for the event to bring the vision to life. The event was originally scheduled to open the new millennium in January…