Tag: microsoft
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Please, keep it simple
I really feel like Microsoft turned a corner a few years ago, and I’ve been impressed with their decision-making for a while. Windows Phone? Pretty neat, actually. “Authentically digital” interfaces? A thousand times yes. Simplified Windows 8 branding? Completely agree. Their decision to simplify their application line-up is another smart move. Your Windows Live ID […]
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The device is the conduit; the cloud is the platform
The other day, Steve Jobs stood up and announced iCloud, which replaces the PC as the hub in the iOS device ecosystem, demoting it to just another device. You no longer need to have a PC to activate or synchronize an iPhone or an iPad. This is right, and proper, and in some ways long […]
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Microsoft may rule the open web
Yesterday, I posted some commentary on Tim O’Reilly’s take on the web as an application platform, and agreed that Microsoft championing the open web would be a very smart strategy for them. Previously, I’d talked about the issues with cloud computing at the moment, and how an iPhone App Store approach to web applications would […]
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The war for the Web
Tim O’Reilly has a great piece up on Radar: If you’ve followed my thinking about Web 2.0 from the beginning, you know that I believe we are engaged in a long term project to build an internet operating system. (Check out the program for the first O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in 2002 (pdf).) In my […]