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GOOG and MSFT – Dog days

          Google and Microsoft both had a difficult night.  Google Google reported results that missed expectations as price erosion hit revenues and investments worsened the situation...

Dell – Game of Chicken.

          Shareholders are playing a dangerous game in trying to force a higher price. Today is the day when shareholders must vote on the offer made...

Microsoft – Leopard spots.

          Microsoft can talk the talk but can it change its spots? Microsoft’s reorganisation and new strategy says everything that is needed to turn the company...

Microsoft – Built it, but they still don’t come.

          On its own, Windows 8.1 is not going to solve the problem.  Microsoft has launched the public preview of Windows 8 at its annual developer...

Samsung PCs – Silly season.

          The desktop PC has its place in the ecosystem.  The silly season is starting early this year with the notion that Samsung is about to...

WinDroid – All about apps.

          Desperation makes strange bedfellows.  The advent of hybrid devices running both Windows 8 and Android is a painful reminder of what OEMs think of both...

Samsung – Barely a murmur

          There was a huge, but deadly silent crowd at today’s launches.  There were lights. There were stars. There were some great products but no one...

Computex – Hybrids on high.

          Hybrid devices are likely to be a factor in the take-off of Windows 8. Computex 2013 kicks off Tuesday June 4th in Taipei and here,...

Windows 8 – Adoption by attrition

          Windows 8 will get there in the end. At its London Analyst summit Intel bemoaned the lack of cool designs for the malaise of the...

HPQ Q2 – The Meg diet

            Austerity buys time for a proper strategy to be formed. HPQ posted good Q2 results and guided nicely as the cost cutting plan began...