Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft will embrace the consumerization of IT with a four-pronged strategy, according to remarks made by COO Kevin Turner during a July 13 keynote at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles. The first pillar involved a “reimagining of Windows,” Turner told the audience. This apparently means educating customers about Windows’ spread beyond the […]

Every Ahab needs his Moby Dick, every Batman his Joker. To that list of opponents who can’t exist without the other, perhaps add Microsoft and Google Android. According to a new research note from Jack Gold, founder and principal analyst of J. Gold Associates, Microsoft’s claims that Android violates its patent portfolio could result in […]

Microsoft executives used the second day of the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference, in Los Angeles, to offer a glimpse of upcoming Windows Phones. Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE, and Samsung manufactured the devices on display as part of the July 12 keynote speeches, all of which sported a thin-and-light design style that will apparently drive the Windows […]

Microsoft is using its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles to push the cloud as an ideal solution for businesses looking to boost their productivity and customer-relationship management. Announcements during the company’s July 12 keynotes included the upcoming release of a System Center 2012 beta, which lets IT administrators manage machines and applications across a […]

Citrix has finished its acquisition of Cloud.com, a provider of software-infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. Cloud.com’s products include the CloudStack product line, designed for the deployment and management of cloud services. In theory, these assets will give Citrix a boost in its cloud-deployment aims. More than 30 percent of enterprises are deploying at least one […]

Hewlett-Packard is apparently still intent on shifting around its top-level executives: Jon Rubinstein, formerly general manager of HP’s Palm Global Business Unit, will become senior vice president of the Personal Systems Group (PSG). “With the launch of webOS 3.0, our team has delivered a world-class platform for HP to leverage going forward, and it is […]

Apple’s next iPad could feature a high-resolution screen along the lines of the company’s “Retina Display,” as well as a slimmer body. That rumor derives from two separate sources. On July 11, Taiwanese publication DigiTimes paraphrased unnamed “industry sources” as claiming that Apple will launch the next iPad either at the end of the third […]

Microsoft is putting a brave face on the marketplace prospects of Windows Phone. During a July 11 keynote speech at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference, in Los Angeles, CEO Steve Ballmer described Windows Phone’s market presence as “very small.” Nonetheless, he went on to insist that other metrics boded well for the smartphone platform, which […]

A consortium led by Microsoft and Apple further cemented their victory over Google in a high-stakes auction for Nortel’s wireless technology patents, with judges in the United States and Canada approving the $4.5 billion transaction. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross, in Wilmington, Del., and Ontario Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Morawetz signaled their approval in a […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opened this year’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles with a rundown of his company’s various operations, including its forays into cloud computing and mobility. Although offering a broad-based summation of current and future projects such as Kinect and Windows 8, he seemed reluctant to share many new details beyond what’s […]

Microsoft continued its Android march this week, with a report that the company plans on demanding $15 from Samsung for each Android smartphone produced by the manufacturer. That information apparently came from unnamed industry officials speaking to the Seoul-based Maeil Business Newspaper, and found its way into a July 6 Reuters report. Were Samsung to […]

Apple’s iPad franchise will continue to dominate the tablet market for some time to come, according to a new analyst report. In a July 7 research note issued by Canaccord Genuity, analyst T. Michael Walkley and his co-authors suggested that the iPad 2’s price point is making it difficult for rival tablets to compete in […]