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An App Store for Business?

By Max Chafkin |  Feb 2, 2010

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

Letters

By Inc. Staff |  Aug 1, 2000

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

G Is for Guts

By Steven Berglas |  May 1, 2000

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

By Steven Berglas |  May 1, 2000

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

By Renee Oricchio |  Jan 6, 2010

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

CES Hits, Runs and Errors

By Renee Oricchio |  Jan 8, 2010

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

By Thea Singer |  Nov 1, 2006

Can you separate yourself from your business?  Read more

Waiting for Windows 7

By Renee Oricchio |  Oct 27, 2008

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

By Renee Oricchio |  Oct 23, 2009

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

Forget the Environment, Save Windows XP

By Renee Oricchio |  Jan 16, 2008

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

By Renee Oricchio |  Nov 19, 2009

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

Just What Is a "Vista Capable" Computer?

By Bill Pfleging |  May 1, 2008

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

By Renee Oricchio |  Jan 17, 2008

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

Avoiding the Tipping Point

By Francisco Dao |  Jun 1, 2005

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

The Pestilence called Microsoft Vista

By Keith McFarland |  Feb 13, 2008

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

Windows 7 for Business Users

By Nadine Heintz |  Oct 22, 2009

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

Microsoft in the Clouds with Azure

By Renee Oricchio |  Oct 28, 2008

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

The Most Dangerous Hire

By Jennifer Reingold |  Jun 1, 2002

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

Superpoking Bill Gates

By Max Chafkin, Bobbie Gossage and Mike Hofman |  Nov 1, 2007

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

Microsoft and Yahoo Partner

By Curt Finch |  Jul 31, 2009

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

What's the Update: When to Get New Software

By Anne Stuart |  Apr 1, 2007

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

Microsoft's bid for Yahoo

By Hannah Clark Steiman |  Mar 11, 2008

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

Has Microsoft Lost Its Mind

By Renee Oricchio |  May 18, 2009

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!

By Renee Oricchio |  May 5, 2008

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

How to Make the Switch to Mac

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 1, 2008

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

By Keith McFarland |  Apr 15, 2008

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

Batteries On The Bum And Windows 7

By Renee Oricchio |  Feb 3, 2010

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

Glory Days

By Joel Spolsky |  Jul 1, 2008

As Bill Gates retires, our columnist recalls what it was like to work for the world's most successful entrepreneur  Read more

Beyond The Billable Hour

By Tom Richman |  Aug 1, 1986

How to get to the point where you have more to sell than the founder's time.  Read more

VARs Under the Influence?

By Joshua D. Macht |  Mar 15, 1998

Microsoft has a new strategy for capturing the small-business market: capture the hearts and minds of consultants, integrators, and value-added resellers.  Read more

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