JamieG Analysis

Recently Microsoft announced that they are making available API information (Docs that describe how their products work. Note: no source code). This is a huge plus for everyone using Microsoft technology. I see great things coming from this. Still, I have never seen Microsoft do anything without reason. The documents being released where, until recently, [...]

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As the MicroHoo sideshow continues, it is hard not to have something to say about the biggest hostile takeover in IT/Internet history. In a previous post I noted how Microsoft has won either way. The Dam-Buster bomb has gone off and hit its target. We are just waiting for the dame that is Yahoo to [...]

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In Jan this year, I posted to some blogs that I expected Blu-Ray on the Xbox360 before the end of the year.  I like making predictions especially when they come true as my June post on Blu-Ray winning, and now Xbox-going Blue-ray. See this article about rumours of Blu-Ray for the Xbox. Still, I want [...]

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If you have not noticed, my blog mainly covers technological issues to do with the adoption or digital media. As such, I talk to a lot of people regarding their business models for expanding digital media. One strange, trend that has appeared is that many companies developing digital media strategies are, by admition, ignoring a [...]

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Recent events surrounding the Microsoft hostile takeover of Yahoo has saddened me greatly. We are about to lose a great company with a great ethic. Yahoo’s lack lustier performance over the last 5-8 years has placed it in a very fragile position. A position companies like Microsoft will not fail to take advantage of. Either [...]

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