Archive for September, 2005

Xbox 360 VS Playstation 3

I’m seeing a lot of bad press lately for the PS3. Mostly they are related to the complexity of the PS3 platform. Especially developers seem to be leaving the PS3 and heading for the Xbox 360 where development is a lot easier. This comes as no surprise since traditionally Microsoft has been very developer oriented [...]

Rising up to the challenge of our rival

There’ve been a lot of stories during the last week about Google and how they seem to be giving Microsoft a difficult time. Stories speculating about what Google are up to. Stories about Microsoft changing the way they build software and reorganizing to better compete against companies like Google. Etc. This is a hot topic [...]

Is Oracle the next Microsoft?

I came across this article on eWEEK where Oracle’s security strategy, or the lack thereof, is being discussed. What is apparent is that Oracle, like many other companies who haven’t been doing much with regards to security, are now waking up to the problem of having to deal with security issues in their products, and [...]

Google wins from Microsoft

I read on the Google blog that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is now allowed to work for Google. As you may know, Dr. Lee is a former employee from Microsoft who left Microsoft a few months ago to join Google. Microsoft’s reaction was to sue both Dr. Lee and Google in order to prevent Dr. Lee [...]

Awesome videos on Channel 9

Scoble’s gone crazy and is releasing video after video on Channel 9. The latest videos show some incredible work being done by Microsoft on the next version of Windows and Office. I highly recommend you take a look. A few days ago he also posted an interview with Bill Gates, which is fun to watch. [...]