Microsoft Flushes $7.2B Down the Toilet
When two smartphone failures join hands, the end result can only be a mega-dud. Microsoft is shelling out $7.2 billion in cash to buy Nokia’s mobile phone devices, license some patents and get access...
View ArticleAsha Smartphones Screwed; Will Die Soon
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Tragedy – Majority of Developers Showing Middle Finger to Windows...
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...
View ArticleInstead of a Hard Reboot, Microsoft got a Minor Update in Satya Nadella
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...
View ArticleDesperate Telugu Bidda Nadella Takes Free Road to Boost Windows Phones, Tablets
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...
View ArticleNo Light at End of Windows Phone Tunnel
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...
View ArticleDoomed! More Surface Pro 3 Discounting
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...
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