Microsoft's Robbie Bach Retires... Whoo-Hoo! (And J is gone, too.)
Just a quick celebration of this morning's news: Robbie Bach is retiring from Microsoft.I'm so happy for him. And for Entertainment and Devices. And Microsoft.This is a great opportunity for E&D to...
View ArticleThoughts on Wrapping Up Microsoft's FY10
Well, here's to wrapping up FY10. The kick-off of the Annual Review Season is our long, long, sloppy kiss goodnight to the fiscal year that was. How are various things wrapping up?Entertainment and...
View ArticleThe KIN-fusing KIN-clusion to KIN, and FY11 Microsoft Layoff Rumors
Get out of the way Microsoft Bob, you have a replacement that Microsoft's Gen-Y employees can claim for their own! It's spelled K-I-N.KIN's demise can't surprise anyone. When I looked at the phone's...
View ArticleMicrosoft FY10Q4 Results
FY10Q4 Microsoft earnings are upon us. So, what's been going on since last we met over the quarterly results?The KIN phone collapse put WP7's future in doubt. Would WP7 meet the same fate? Is it under...
View ArticleMicrosoft Annual Review 2010
Just a quick post: some of you enjoy posting information relevant to your review, both looking at numbers and a critical view of the message given to you. It has started to happen a bit in the last...
View ArticleHere Comes Microsoft Company Meeting 2010!
Hello, SafeCo Field! Another year, another Microsoft Company Meeting!Anyone who has read this blog for a while knows that I'm a big fan of the Company Meeting, though I have to admit this is the first...
View ArticleMicrosoft Company Meeting 2010
Best. Company Meeting. Ever.*(*excluding the classic Company Meetings, especially the one where Cheap Trick played afterward.)Mini-MicrosoftMicrosoft -- Comments
View ArticleA Case of the Microsoft Downgrade Blues
Oh, great, we've hit a case of the downgrades as a sequel to the quarterly results that no-one bought.Specifically, Ms. Friar at Goldman Sachs downgraded us with a variety of reasons and expectations....
View ArticleMicrosoft Health Care Pops a Cap in One Big Week
Wow, what got in the corporate water for this week? Coming off the glow of last week's Company Meeting Koolaid we first got hit by the Goldman Sachs downgrade hang-over, then, to channel Mr. Ballmer,...
View ArticleMr. Ray Ozzie and Microsoft's Chief Software Architect - So long, farewell,...
A Microsoft position got retired this week: Chief Software Architect.That used to be - quite unofficially - Mr. Bill Gates by the sheer nature of his intellect. And it led to many entertaining and...
View ArticleMicrosoft FY11Q1 Results
How about some FY11Q1 Microsoft earnings!My usual suspects for earnings discussion:Mr. Joe Wilcox over at Beta NewsMr. Todd Bishop over at TechFlash's Microsoft BlogMr. Joseph Tartakoff somewhere...
View ArticleMicrosoft FY11Q2 Results
A quick check from the last Quarterly Results leading up to today's Microsoft Quarterly Results:What's great: Kinect. We sold millions of Kinects and it's full of cool! And we have a 93% customer...
View ArticleMicrosoft's New Review and Compensation System - Now With More Cash!
"I am not a number, I am a free man!"Well, at least we don't have a Six to give out.Goodbye E/A/U + 20/70/10[I/II] and hello 1 to 5.Kim, we just don't have a Limited to give to you anymore.So we have a...
View ArticleMicrosoft FY11Q3 Results
What's on your mind as the Microsoft FY11Q3 results get released? Some things I'm thinking of:Win7 Business being eaten alive by iPads? Oh, those hungry hungry cannibals eating away the post-PCs for...
View ArticleSkype? Steve Ballmer Discovers a Way to Obliterate Eight and a Half Billion...
That's $8,500,000,000USD for the Skype brand.Microsoft to Acquire Skype Combined companies will benefit consumers, businesses and increase market opportunity.Also, because, you know, the aQuantive...
View ArticleMicrosoft FY11Q4 Results
(ring-ring, Mini, ring-ring)How is this quarter shaping up? First of all, let's review some competitors:IBM: Bang! Third base!Google: Boom! Out of the park, home-run!Apple: Ka-Blam! Out of the city....
View ArticleMicrosoft Annual Review 2011
It has become a tradition for folks to share their review numbers to help get a sense of what's happening and how your numbers stack up. This year we have a new challenge of working through an entirely...
View ArticleFriday! Friday! Friday! Microsoft Company Meeting 2011!
(Note: updated below with follow-up comments.)It's my most favorite time of the year: Friday the 23rd is the annual Microsoft Company Meeting!That's right: I pull up my sleeves and thrust out my arms...
View ArticleMicrosoft FY12Q1 Results
Here it is, FY12Q1 already: Microsoft Reports Record First-Quarter Results $17.37 billion of revenue driven by solid business and consumer demand.. Wow, is that the longest, braggy release title we've...
View ArticleMicrosoft FY12Q2 Results
Fiscal results: Microsoft Investor Relations - Earnings Release FY12 Q2.My favorite tech bloggers:Todd Bishop - Microsoft beats estimates even as Windows profits fall 11% - GeekWireMary Jo Foley -...
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