Tag: Microsoft

Google to launch Retail Stores

February 19, 2013 0 Comments

The latest rumor from rumor mill is about Google Retail stores. As reported by Amir Efrati on WSJ, Google Inc. is working on plans to launch retails stores to compete with Apple Inc. and Microsoft. After the Motorola acquisition its a very likely possibility but it may not be a good business decision. Lets look [...]

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Office 365 Home Premium and Tablet adoption

January 29, 2013 0 Comments

Today Microsoft announced Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud based office suite, which includes office applications for up to 5 devices including  PCs, tablets, and Macs; and also includes extra SkyDrive storage and Skype calling. This is a frontal attack at the Google docs, drive and voice package that Google is trying to push into schools, small [...]

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Can Microsoft Surface RT win Business and Student segments ?

October 18, 2012 0 Comments

Microsoft started taking pre orders for Surface RT and already ran out of the initial stock. Microsoft priced Surface RT 32GB version at $499 in much different way than I imagined and suggested.  Microsoft Surface RT supports  Office Home & Student version, low-end version of the popular office suite, Windows Live mail, Skydrive and no outlook. [...]

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What should Nokia do ?

October 14, 2012 0 Comments

At ITG digial author Mr. Erich wrote a great article investigating various possible root causes for Nokia’s fall and ruled out some of the most common misconceptions of bloggers. I wanted to take it a little further down that thought process and pay more close attention to current situation and what Nokia can do about [...]

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Microsoft Surface Strategy: The Game Theory way

October 11, 2012 5 Comments

With Microsoft confirming  the shipping  date for Surface RT,  technology journalists started predicting the price of the device  and the possible threat to iPad empire. For example, bloggers at computerworld have some thought-provoking discussions about the pricing strategies based on the manufacturing cost and on ways to neutralize the iPad.  But in my opinion there [...]

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