Microsoft’s Open Pose

On November 5, 2014, Microsoft announced that it would make Office available for free on mobile devices, including android devices. According to the announcement, customers can sign up for a preview today and the product will be availability in early 2015. This...

Open Beats Closed

At some point in every business school student, undergraduate business major, or for that matter, any executive begins to understand the short term value of customer lock-in. By preventing your customers from being able to switch to a competitor, then you are at a...

Oracle: Social Is Now Part of The Infrastructure

Larry Ellison of Oracle has been around the IT industry from before it was called the IT industry. While he doesn’t always predict the future well (cloud computing… ahem) he is a keen observer of large enterprises. He is also willing to say what he thinks. That...

Bye Bye Larry… Oh Wait!

  Oracle announced yesterday that Larry Ellison will hand over the CEO reins to his lieutenants Mark Hurd and Safra Catz. I bet HP feels really stupid just about now for having said so many mean things about Hurd. Predictably, this set off a series of ancient...

New Mobile: Windows 1, Apple 0

Last week, Tom Petrocelli wrote his post New Tablet: Android 1, Windows 0, in which he recalled why he chose Android over Windows for his new tablet. Today, I explain my choice for Windows over Apple for my mobile phone. In my job, I work with several form factors...