Surface Pro 3 – Discounts Start Some companies are like some people – Plain stupid. They never learn from their follies. Take Microsoft and its doomed Surface tablets for instance. Over the last few years, Microsoft has incurred losses nearing two billion dollars on its disastrous forays into the tablet arena. No matter that Microsoft […]
Each time a new report on smartphones or tablets comes out, it must be another humiliating, embarrassing moment for the microserfs toiling away at Microsoft on the Sisyphean task of growing marketshare for their unwanted, little-loved, mostly ignored mobile devices. A new smartphone report out today from Kantar Worldpanel offers little comfort to Microsoft. Android […]
Telugu bidda Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO, is clearly a desperate man as he struggles to reverse the company’s pathetic performance in two hot sectors – smartphones and tablets. Unless you’re a blithering idiot hiding under some rock in hooker paradise Chilakaluripet, you know Microsoft’s smartphone and tablet forays have failed to excite consumers and […]
Challenging times call for a full reboot of the system. Alas, all that Microsoft got in its new leader was a minor update. Satya Nadella, a Telugu bidda who studied at a capitation fee college (Manipal Institute of Technology) and bears a lackluster record, has been named the new CEO of Microsoft. Nadella, 47, also […]
A smartphone or tablet is only as good as the ecosystem that extends, supports and nurtures the device. Apple is blessed not merely because a lot of fans stand in line to get the latest iPhone but also because there’s a huge ecosystem of developers and accessories vendors that flock to the iOS platform. After […]
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s mobile phone devices business means that Nokia’s new Asha $99 low-end smartphones for countries like India will die an inglorious death sooner rather than later. As part of the deal to acquire Nokia’s devices and services, Microsoft will get the Asha brand too. Asha Smartphones from Nokia Asha Doomed Nokia’s Asha […]