I finally got the chance to go visit the new Microsoft Store at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. I have to say that I was pretty impressed. The Microsoft Store is directly across from the Apple Store. The comparison between the two stores is so obvious, that you feel the competition oozing out of [...]
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the Microsoft Store
Posted: December 16, 2010 in Featured, TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Apple, Apple Store, Microsoft, Microsoft Store
No App for That! Is Steve Jobs Failing Apple?
Posted: May 14, 2010 in Featured, Marketplace Infrastructure, TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Adobe, Apple, Apple vs. Adobe, Applications Development, commodity, differentiation, Flash, innovation, iPad, iPhone, Open Source, product erosion, sign, significance, standardization, Steve Jobs, tech savvy, Tech War
“It’s Innovation, not Open Source. . .” I just finished reading Gregg Keizer’s Computer World article, “Adobe escalates feud with Apple over Flash.” In his article, Keizer outlines some new developments in the ongoing Next Tech War. Specifically, Keizer links to a post on Adobe’s website titled, “Freedom of Choice,” which offers a letter from [...]
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Launch Event – It’s all about the Cartoon Ads!
Posted: May 4, 2010 in Featured, Technology InfrastructureTags: BI, business intelligence, dynamics gp, FRx, great plains, Microsoft, People-Centered, Roles-based, SharePoint, Software Design
“All of those cartoon faces have names and represent specific job functions or roles in an organization.”
The #TechWar Continues $AAPL $MSFT $ADBE #Flash #HTML5 #Silverlight
Posted: May 3, 2010 in Featured, TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Apple, Flash, HTML5, iPad
Microsoft joins the Tech War and shows Apple how to do this “social media thing” the right way. In a ZDnet article just published today, titled Microsoft fires back at critics of its HTML5 strategy, Ed Bott describes the very different approaches Microsoft and Apple are taking to announce their support for the HTML5 standard. It [...]
The Next Tech War: Mobile Applications Development Platforms
Posted: April 12, 2010 in Featured, TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Adobe, Apple, CS5, Google, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Silverlight 4, Steve Jobs, Windows Phone 7, XNA 4
This Means War! Today, Adobe launches the highly anticipated Creative Suite 5 (CS5). The most anticipated feature of CS5 is the ability to develop applications using Flash technologies and compile the application so it will run in Apple’s iPhone. The great thing about this, from Adobe’s perspective, is that it allows hundreds of thousands of [...]
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