The year 2009 was pretty good to Microsoft, even as the weak economy ravaged sales. Microsoft actually did a few things right. For now, I present the list of 10 things Microsoft did right in 2009 — in no order of importance. They’re all important. Microsoft:
1. Flawlessly launched Windows 7. There’s a metaphor somehow in [...]

Earlier today, I posted “10 things Microsoft did right in 2009.” I originally planned to post the did-wrong list tomorrow. But in view of today’s news about Microsoft’s out-going chief financial officer, Chris Liddell, I changed the timetable. Liddell’s departure is one of the things Microsoft did wrong in 2009 (He will become CFO at [...]

Three vendors, three different paths on dealing with the open-source data architecture
The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways.
While startups and established data warehousing vendors such as Sybase Inc. and Teradata Inc. are embracing Hadoop and its Google-developed [...]

Estate not contacted about use of ‘Nexus One’ name
Is the Google Phone, currently known as ‘Nexus One’ an unauthorised replicant?
Philip K. Dick’s daughter certainly thinks so, with the Blade Runner author’s estate having not been contacted or consulted over the use of the name ‘Nexus One’ – which Google seems to have lifted directly from [...]

Tonight at a Google Campfire One Google  released Google Web Toolkit 2.0, aiming to do two main things for developers:

Make it easier to build faster apps
Speed up the overall development cycle

This is a very exciting release because it’s the cumulation of a year and a half working with teams like Google Wave, AdWords, and Orkut [...]