by David M. Smith | May 7, 2013 | Submit a Comment
The Windows 8 saga continues. Nary a day passes when there isn’t some new rumor or opinion, Microsoft is giving hints as to what its near term successor, code named Blue, will be, but has not provided any concrete details. I offer an artist’s rendition of the new desktop screen: Of course, this is not [...]
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by David M. Smith | May 17, 2012 | Comments Off
I’ve long thought of the effects of SaaS adoption as consumerization on steroids. It is an en masse instance of consumerization as business users increasingly go to the cloud to get what they need bypassing IT. And what about SaaS vendors? Are they starting to exhibit similar behavior as their customers? Many started as traditional [...]
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by David M. Smith | May 4, 2012 | Comments Off
Everyone has heard of consumerization of IT. It’s all about how consumer focused technologies and approaches affect enterprises and IT. We’re now starting to see some of the opposite. Now we are starting to see the enterprization of the cloud. It results in lower expectations but higher prices. This is a corollary to my description [...]
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by David M. Smith | January 19, 2012 | 3 Comments
Barely a day goes by without more news about Macs gaining in the enterpris and I still see the occasional rant about crapware (e.g., the loads of preinstalled software that comes loaded on consumer PCs by hardware manufacturers). On the surface, these seem unrelated concepts. But I think there is an interesting connection. Crapware in [...]
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by David M. Smith | September 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
OK, Trick question. I know it’s kernel panic and by that reasoning, it should be the odd man out. But I will make a case for Private PaaS as the others are always used to mean something real. Private PaaS, not so much. Yes, that sound you hear is my head exploding. Private PaaS. [...]
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by David M. Smith | August 17, 2011 | Comments Off
The suspense around Microsoft’s future is building. Many of the answers will be forthcoming during the company’s upcoming Build conference. Nominally a renaming of its PDC and WinHEC developer conferences, this year’s event comes at a critical time for the company. It is facing unprecedented competition from Apple and Google – much of which threatens [...]
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by David M. Smith | February 10, 2011 | Comments Off
Everybody’s weighing in on the big Nokia news expected tomorrow. This isn’t about the actual choice widely expected to be be that Nokia and Microsoft reach a deal around Windows Phone 7. I actually predicted this when Stephen Elop joined Nokia. So that’s not surprising to me at least. Although the speed at which the [...]
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by David M. Smith | November 11, 2010 | Comments Off
When Steve Ballmer was interviewed at Gartner Symposium in Orlando last month, he said that his riskiest product bet is the next version of Windows. I agree with him. What’s not obvious is what is on the critical path to that product. I believe it is Windows Phone 7. Here’s why: It’s simple. it’s the [...]
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by David M. Smith | October 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
As a platform company at its heart, PDC is a great way to understand what Microsoft’s real strategies are. In addition to its focus on three trends that are popular overall (HTML5, mobile, and cloud), the specifics show some significant changes and enhancements to the the company’s strategy. First, HTML5. Microsoft led off with this [...]
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by David M. Smith | September 24, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m not saying that Twitter is a fad (as some said of the Internet way back when). Just trying to make some connections. Two recent events (OK, not so recent as they were a few months ago but hey, I’ve been busy and finally decided to do some more blogging…) made me think about [...]
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