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Tag: Microsoft

Microsoft Buys Minecraft, 3 perspectives

September 15, 2014 Ian Kennedy

How much money was the company bought for? Microsoft acquired Mojang for a smooth 2.5 BILLION dollars. – Mojang blog post I love you. All of you. Thank you for turning Minecraft into what it has become, but there are too many of you, and I can’t be responsible for something this big. In one […]

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Where is the Microsoft Surface theme song?

February 12, 2013 Ian Kennedy

For the launch of Windows95, Microsoft licensed Start Me Up from the Rolling Stones as a way to kick off the biggest software upgrade in the company’s history and forever brand Mick Jagger’s crooning with a key feature of Win95. Now we have the Surface. Where’s the theme song?

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Steve Ballmer Developers Rap

May 4, 2011 Ian Kennedy

Mad props for getting Linus Torvalds into a rap song. This has to be a first. Smixx – Developers (feat. Steve Ballmer) by Smixx

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Cloud Wars

March 1, 2011 (February 12, 2021) Ian Kennedy

Marketing campaigns are gearing up for the major players offering cloud services as add-ons to their core products. Google Docs recently launched Google Cloud Connect,  a plug-in which lets  you add your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to Google Docs and share with your colleagues. (Ars Technica reviews Cloud Connect and says it’s “not ready […]

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Viral Video – Two Approaches

July 1, 2010 (March 7, 2020) Ian Kennedy

My aunt Karen is in the advertising industry and she forwards me snippets where our two industries cross paths. It’s always interesting to see something you know really well from another perspective. In this case, she sent over an article from Advertising Age, Why Microsoft Killed Kin After Just Six Weeks While the article’s conclusion […]

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Loosely Connected

February 4, 2010 (June 22, 2019) Ian Kennedy

Mike Manos has joined Nokia as VP of Service Operations and has been tasked to build the cloud infrastructure for our Ovi services. The New York Times calls him a “data-center celebrity” and reading his blog certainly shows the knowledge and experience he brings to the table. His initial post gives a hint of his […]

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Microsoft Tablet vs. Apple Tablet

September 30, 2009 (February 16, 2014) Ian Kennedy

Gizmodo has the goods on the Courier Tablet while Wired’s Gadget Lab has the summary (and hilarious mockup) of something iLounge is calling an the iPad. Either way, folks are looking for a way to innovate beyond the touch screen and netbook form factor. I’m not so sure this is the solution. If it’s going […]

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BrowseRank – Microsoft’s Answer to PageRank

July 25, 2008 Ian Kennedy

Microsoft announced today that they’ve discovered a better way to rank web pages. While Google’s PageRank sorts roughly on the number of incoming links that point to a page, a vote of confidence by bloggers and website editors, Microsoft’s BrowseRank looks at browsing behavior to see which links get more clicks. Sounds good on the […]

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Where’s the Kaboom?

May 4, 2008 (December 15, 2020) Ian Kennedy

There are so many things I could say right now about Microsoft walking away from the table this past weekend. More than anything, I feel like someone peering up over the parapet and looking at the smoke clearing from the battlefield. Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom?

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Microsoft Max

September 10, 2006 (March 1, 2020) Ian Kennedy

A P2P picture sharing service or viral user acquisition service for Passport?

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