This is the front page of Tuesday May 1st’s Wall Street Journal. It’s a well done graphic overlaying Microsoft’s big-dollar entrances into “markets where it lags behind rivals”:

During the holiday season, why not write about great packaging? (a theme I have written about before)

There is nothing profound about this realization or blog post… after all, it was sparked by Apple’s iPad: Rewind 2010 promotion which has two categories of featured applications: ‘The Cloud’ and ‘Mobile Office’:

But tying together the web’s most visited site (Facebook) with arguably the most important communication platform (email) is both natural and a long time coming.
And with this week’s announcement of Microsoft’s ‘Outlook Social Connector‘ …

I am very frustrated with Microsoft Outlook – particularly the calendar… which, for every scheduling / meeting exchange, requires one to switch between inbox and calendar. As a calendar fills up, this becomes more and …

In all the developer attention paid to mobile, Facebook and web-based applications, “desktop widgets” have been the big loser. They were thought to be a major selling point when Microsoft Vista was launching – and …

Microsoft clearly understands that the platform element of Xbox is as much a selling point as its game titles: in just the first week of being live, 10% of Microsoft’s Xbox Live subscribers connected their …

As Cyber Monday and the holiday season approach, Fortune notes that Macs are the most wished for computers (laptops and desktops) on Amazon. For laptops, the three “most wished for” products are the MacBook ($999), …

First Microsoft had Lauren. Now they have Giampaolo, a “technically savvy” twenty-something looking for a computer that fits his $1,500 budget (higher than Lauren’s $1,000 budget).
Because Giampaolo’s budget is higher, he is actually able to …

Microsoft made headlines with their “Lauren” commercials (“I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person”):

Considering the economy, Microsoft hit Apple at a very sore, powerful point: pricing. Critics argued that the machine “Lauren” …

Strong numbers were announced today from The NDP Group that show significant year-over-year growth in video game console purchases: +26% in October ’08 vs. ’07 for consoles, software and accessories.
However, portable gaming consoles (like …

More to come… but I am blown away by Google’s new web browser, Chrome.
It’s lightning fast.
Blows Firefox, IE7, and Safari out of the water. Not even close.
It’s slick.
The UI is clean and there …