I followed Microsoft closely for many years when I was in the technology press, visited the company every year or so and even sat down with Bill Gates for interviews a few times. was always impressed by the competitiveness of the Microsoft culture and wondered whether Microsoft it would resist the disease that killed companies like Digital Equipment, Wang Laboratories and Compaq, and that nearly killed IBM and Novell. Today, the idea that anyone would get excited about any kind of Microsoft product launch seems unfathomable. Creeping Bureaucracy. MORE >>

Last year, after a run-in with a spammer, Michael Arrington , the TechCrunch CEO, wrote an article which painted a pretty scathing picture of the PR industry: “…we consider the PR industry, for the most part, the bane of our existence. Gini Dietrich responded that, regardless of any generalization, the communication industry really does have a “perception issue.”. Virtually every industry has a perception issue. The “Oil Industry” has BP  and the Exxon Valdez. But no one does business with an entire industry. You get the picture. 1.     Tell the truth. MORE >>

Back in America’s early beginnings, during the Industrial Revolution, men like Carnegie and Rockefeller were titans among the masses. Fast forward several decades and onto the digital battleground between Google and Microsoft for the prize of most coveted search engine. Google’s FT Settlement Criticized by Rivals Microsoft, Yelp. Featured Google Search Engines Federal Trade Commission FTC google google adwords Industrial Revolution microsoft Web search engine yelpThese men single handedly changed the world. What does this mean in regards to SEO? MORE >>

But what is interesting is it likely will cripple the consumer electronics industry. The consumer electronics industry is built around copying the successful products that Apple produces. Microsoft opened 11 retail stores this year. Be the Leader In Your Industry: Blaze the Trail originally appeared on Spin Sucks on August 29, 2011. Steve Jobs resigned last week. This is likely not news to you. Page from the Apple Book. When the iPhone came out, there were copycat touch-screen phones on the market within months. Apple blazed the trail. Apple blazed the trail. MORE >>

The global IT industry is in the middle of an epic platform shift and the rules for survival in a market built on mobility, big data analytics, social business and cloud computing will be very different than those that applied to the previous client/server generation. Gens, who has tracked the computer industry since the days when mainframes ruled the earth, outlined a dramatically new economic structure that will emerge as economies of scale take hold. Will Microsoft be a player in mobile platforms? Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 was a weak fourth at under 40%. MORE >>