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An App Store for Business?

Google to sell business software . Your business may already use Google's free offerings for search and email, but Google hopes you'll eventually us...  Read more

Is a Gates Comeback Inevitable?

I think it's possible. However, even more possible, I think, is that a Steve Ballmer departure is inevitable. Last year, I wrote a posting on this...  Read more

Why I Want Bill Gates Back

Let's address the elephant in the room. Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, needs to go. It just isn't good and hasn't been for a long time. I think it's time t...  Read more

Letters

Readers react to articles from the May and June 2000 issues of Inc. , including "I'm John Burgess. I'm Here to Help You," by Joseph Rosenbloom; " ...  Read more

If CES is So Great...

The Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing in Vegas right now. Confession: I'm not there and I have no shame about it. Granted, it would be fu...  Read more

G Is for Guts

The author argues that Bill Gates should get more respect for showing his true entrepreneurial colors by turning Microsoft operations over to Steve Ballmer a...  Read more

G Is for Guts

The author argues that Bill Gates should get more respect for showing his true entrepreneurial colors by turning Microsoft operations over to Steve Ballmer a...  Read more

Trade Shows I Can't Quit You

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will kick off The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tonight. O...  Read more

25 Tech Companies You Want To Work For

The perks of being a techie. Business Insider compiled a list of Read more

CES Hits, Runs and Errors

Needless to say, The International Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing right now in Vegas. My friend and PR maven, Martha, who was on her w...  Read more

Our Companies, Ourselves

Can you separate yourself from your business?  Read more

Waiting for Windows 7

This is all but the death knell in Vista's coffin. Speaking at the Gartner Symposium ITexpo in Orlando, Fla last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowl...  Read more

Friday Come Backs

I can't resist responding to your comments this week. It's Microsoft people. No matter how you put it the same people who designed, code...  Read more

Windows Phone 7 On Shelves

It's here. The question is does anyone really care? Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is now available starting this week. Uh, however, I haven't heard of ...  Read more

Windows Phone 7 on 11

It's a date: Microsoft is planning a Hail Mary pass , er uh, I mean launch events in New York and ...  Read more

Forget the Environment, Save Windows XP

If Microsoft's chairman, Steve Ballmer, had hair; it would definitely be rubbed backwards right now. While the 'softies continue to spin their Vis...  Read more

Time For Launch 2.0

I was watching Marc Benioff from Salesforce.com launch Chatter (the social networking app for Salesforce.com). No surprises here. The video featu...  Read more

Microsoft Buys Skype

Tech giant acquires the Internet phone service for a staggering $8.5 billion. Plus how to fix your worst product, and the rest of the day's news for entrepre...  Read more

Just What Is a "Vista Capable" Computer?

Over the past year, many businesses have tried to upgrade their operating systems to Windows Vista, only to find it to be a bad experience. Here's how to mak...  Read more

Windows Vista and the NeoTechs

I would just like to follow up on yesterday's posting on the petition to save Windows XP - due to be retired in June of this year. Windows Vista i...  Read more

Windows 7 for Business Users

I just returned from the Windows 7 launch. Of course, the new operating system's touchscreen capability was a major theme. But one thing that struck me ab...  Read more

The Pestilence called Microsoft Vista

Note to my readers: Don't make the mistake of allowing the pestilence called Microsoft Vista through the gate of your company -- if your experience is lik...  Read more

Avoiding the Tipping Point

Anyone who has ever been with a growing company from its early start-up days to any measure of significant size has undoubtedly experienced the tipping p...  Read more

Complete Rules of Entrepreneurship

The new rules of starting up. Plus, analyzing the start-up "blubble"—yes, blubble—and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Microsoft in the Clouds with Azure

While Amazon.com has just formally lifted the "beta" caveat off its two-year old cloud computing service, EC2; fashionably-late Microsoft has just announc...  Read more

Competition for iPad Coming Soon

In fact, there's quite a bit of competition on the way to go up against the iPad - finally! Of course, the real question is will any of them prove to be s...  Read more

A Big Day for Diapers.com

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: <...  Read more

Microkia: The New Mobile Power Couple

I stand by my earlier posting a couple of days ago. This really will go down in history as the...  Read more

Microsoft and Yahoo Partner

After much back and forth, Microsoft has made a deal with Yahoo that c...  Read more

Superpoking Bill Gates

Ten questions we'd like to ask Microsoft's founder about his company's play for Facebook.  Read more

The Most Dangerous Hire

For years you've crowed about the company you built. Now it's time to hand over the reins. Here are answers to some questions you've asked -- and some you ha...  Read more

Microsoft's bid for Yahoo

There's an interesting story in today's New York Times about the anti-...  Read more

What's the Update: When to Get New Software

New versions come out all the time, like Microsoft's new Vista operating system, raising questions about whether and when to upgrade. Here's how to decide.  Read more

Has Microsoft Lost Its Mind

Microsoft is keeping mum on this one, so far, of course. But according to Darrel Ward, a Dell product manager from its business client program (in other w...  Read more

Microsoft and Yahoo!: Not Happening!

Happy Monday. While we were all out golfing, going to our kids' soccer games and shopping at Costco; negotiations in the deal of the year ended in no deal...  Read more

Behold CES's iPad Killers (Possibly)

Here's a look at the multitude of tablet devices that debuted at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.  View slideshow

How to Make the Switch to Mac

Apple is making serious in roads at long last with business users due to a perfect storm: Vista's woes, excitement about the iPhone, and promised enterprise ...  Read more

Vista Still Sucks

It has been 62 days since I first blogged about my ...  Read more

Batteries On The Bum And Windows 7

Microsoft announced this week that it is formerly launching an investigation into complaints that Windows 7 is adversely affecting laptop batteries in a v...  Read more

Yipes: Windows Tablet For 2012

Apple now has the iPad 2. Research in Motion has its Playbook. Google has a plethora of Android tablets, including the Motorola Zoom getting so much atten...  Read more

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