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Everyone’s posting their Satya Nadella interviews… here’s ours (from 2007)

Back in 2007, Microsoft held what turned out to be a one-time event, called Searchification. Microsoft invited a number of media types down to Mountain View, California (to Microsoft’s offices there, where Live Search was headquartered at that time) to …

Bing, Bill Gates, and the Board: Microsoft to retool?

A trio of new rumors have been circulating the past few days, of course perhaps overshadowed by a fourth, that Microsoft is about to choose a new CEO. Last week, Bloomberg reported that longtime Microsoft veteran Satya Nadella could …

What Microsoft can learn from the Seahawks’ “12th Man”

Tomorrow, Sunday February 2nd, the Seattle Seahawks play the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl for the NFL championship. Seattle is pretty excited about it all, partly because we haven’t won at much of anything, partly because the …

Satya Nadella and the Young Guns

A pair of posts in the past twenty four hours, from Re/Code and Bloomberg, would have us believe that the next CEO of Microsoft could very well be an insider, Satya Nadella, and a decision could be coming as …

OneDrive: Has Microsoft screwed up the branding, again? (UPDATED)

You know the story: Microsoft, at a time when they’re facing fierce competition from both Box and Dropbox, lost a European Union court battle with British Sky Broadcasting, known as BSkyB but promoting products under the “Sky” brand, rather than …

OneDrive and Office Online: naming done right?

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the new name for its cloud storage service, having been forced to drop SkyDrive for OneDrive. Just a few hours later, word filtered out that another new change is in the works, a rename from Office Web …

SkyDrive is now OneDrive – will Office Web Apps soon be “Office Online”?

Just this morning, Microsoft made official their new name for SkyDrive, it’s now “OneDrive” (see our post on the short history of the many names of OneDrive). Now, word is filtering out that OneDrive may not be the only …

A short history of the many lives of OneDrive

This morning, Microsoft debuted the new name for SkyDrive, OneDrive, which it was required to drop after a lawsuit by BSkyB, who own the “Sky” brand and are using it for their own online services. The new name keeps …

Irrational numbers: Nonsense over Windows Phone sales figures, from everywhere

This week, both Nokia and Microsoft released earnings statements, and while most all of the numbers in both reports were meant to spin the truth more than reveal it, a few numbers did jump out. One such figure showed Nokia’s

Office Web App’s “Tell Me” – a precursor to Cortana?

This week Microsoft released new versions of its Office Web Apps, featuring a new, flatter look, footnotes and endnotes, and most notably, a new “search box” for editing and formatting commands, called Tell Me. Although the switch to the new …