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What happens when Microsoft has lost the University undergradutes?

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We’ll find out in about five to ten years by looking at their bottom line, but right now it’s not looking good for Microsoft. If the next generation of University graduates only really want Excel once a month for some heavy lifting of numbers, that’s not going to be enough. I spend time at a few universities, including MIT and CU Boulder… I noticed a bunch of students with their email open during class – almost every one of them was using Gmail… I don’t focus on market share dynamics (I’m sure there are teams of people at Microsoft and

Don’t believe Windows Phone 8, it doesn’t do back-ups

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One of my pieces on All About Windows Phone: Windows Phone 8 does not back-up your device. It backs up a list of your applications and the global settings in your phone. Social network accounts tied into the People Hub are synced with your Live account, so they can be easily restored (including the address book and calendars), but that’s about it. Putting a Windows Phone back to the condition it was before a reset is nigh-on impossible. In this day and age, am I wrong in thinking that this is unacceptable? Or does the fact that the restore does

The Hobbled Launch of the Lumia

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Their New York event was going to be the big announcement, the moment that Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop could say not just that Nokia was back, but that Nokia was back with the best smartphone in the business. Unfortunately they had to demonstrate their new cutting edge smartphones with one hand deliberately tied behind their back by Microsoft. By me, over on Forbes.