Recent content by Jcmg62

Anyone who's been following the Microsoft (windows mobile), Apple, Google saga for long enough will know that there's only one way Microsoft can ever hope to be relevant in the mobile space....build a fantastic surface phone, stick a rock solid windows mobile OS on it, pack it with exclusive...

OEMHT and OEMBL... Catchy names

But even if they did, would they stay in the fight? That's always been the issue with getting behind Microsoft. They have a nasty habit of walking away. With Panos gone, and sales sliding, I wouldn't be shocked to see the surface brand under threat of the axe. There was an article the...

I agree, and on paper the stars should align: Windows on Arm is working, and working well Qualcomm are massively behind making high powered WoA hardwarehe Microsoft have made desktop windows more mobile centric. It's only a short hop from desktop WoA to mobile windows. Windows store have...

"exiting mobile was a mistake".... wait, you mean spending billions on a platform, billions more on Nokia, scrapping features that made the hardware and OS better than the competition, ballsing up the marketing strategy, promising to remain in mobile then pulling the pin less than a year later...

That is not OK. How is this poor guy going to make it through an entire year on just $4800000. This is seriously going to impact on his plans to buy more helicopters, extend his 500 acre holiday ranch and add a couple of bugattis to his collection. If I were him I'd quit. Clearly Microsoft...

Its not eating costs. It's making billions and billion every quarter. That's the point I was making. If Microsoft was losing money or struggling, I'd get the need to cut jobs to save the company, but that's not the case. It's a trillion dollar business that makes more in profit than the entire...

1400 people unemployed. Homes lost, savings wiped out, dreams dashed... But hey, at least the company is doing well. There was a time when companies didn't make redundancies when they were profitable. Redundancy and retrenchment were tools used by HR when times were bad and profits were...

100% guarantee Microsoft will find a way to screw this up. It goes something like this. Microsoft develop or acquire something awesome, only to hand it off to a dozen fifedom building business units headed by egomaniacs who don't like to play with other business units. Through sheer force...

As a small business owner with nowhere to hide when it comes to paying tax, this brings me great joy. I hope Microsoft get slammed. I can't afford to pay an army of consultants to dream up ways of tax avoidance and borderline tax fraud. They want us to believe that this is in the past, but...

Why is Microsoft pushing a new OS so soon after the launch of Windows 11? W11 has been around less than two years.

It's a heck of a shame, where we are today with the surface line. After the roller coaster ride, and ultimate disappointment, of the Windows Phone fiasco, we needed a beacon of light from Microsoft, and the Surface brand was just that. We were told from the very start that the surface brand...

Glad to hear the employees are happy, because the customers are pissed

2019. That was the last time Microsoft had a good hardware launch. Microsoft have struggled to define themselves for over 15 years. They're like a nerdy IBM that wants to hang out with the cool Apple gang. They never recovered from missing the start of the mobile race. They had the tools...

I thought the whole point behind the surface line was to push boundaries and experiment with new windows form factors. Didn't they do a whole song and dance about how surface wasn't intended to erode market share or compete with hardware partners, but was actually supposed to be a guiding...