May 26, 2011
Ballmer: Time up for ‘stuck in the past’ Microsoft CEO?
The Register
Gavin Clarke analyzes why Skype wasn’t the right answer for Microsoft and why one industry executive thinks Ballmer should be out.
“Until Skype, Ballmer was reasonably safe. While the stock’s not going north, he is CEO of a company that makes more than $60bn a year. At $8.5bn and with a board clearly not 100 per cent behind Skype, Ballmer’s now out on an even bigger limb than before when he didn’t buy Yahoo! and when he laughed off Apple’s iPhone that Microsoft is now trying to copy.”
What’s your opinion?
BlueStacks Runs Android Apps On Windows PCs
Information Week
Eric Zeman writes on the start-up’s technology for Windows devices.
“There’s no doubt that Android is a hot mobile platform right now, and there are a growing number of business applications that run on Google’s popular platform. But the idea didn’t start with business apps, it started with games.”
What’s your opinion?
The Increasingly Irrelevant Desktop OS
ZDNet
Ken Hess looks at why applications in the cloud are the future of virtualization.
“The future is to have no distinct operating system on your local device (Tablet, Phone, Netbook, Laptop) but have access to operating systems (not that you’ll need one), services and applications via the Cloud. You don’t need an operating system anymore. You need applications. Think application virtualization.”
What’s your opinion?