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September 5th, 2008

..as a twitter-plugin in WP didn’t work for a while, here is the history of most of my tweets in the meantime:

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August 24th, 2008

BoomTown is flatly fascinated by the rather incredible memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer penned to his troops yesterday, with news of the reorganization of its massive Platforms and Services Division and the departure of its president, Kevin Johnson.

In the memo, in a very rare public airing of its less-clean laundry, Ballmer actually casts Microsoft’s two major rivals, Apple and Google, in a somewhat positive light, while still vowing to best them.

It is not often that Ballmer or even Microsoft Founder Bill Gates mentions either company in public. More to the point, what neither typically does is acknowledge that they do anything right.

But Ballmer did so yesterday in the memo, perhaps a sign that Microsoft (MSFT) realizes it has trouble on its hands and needs to publicly declare tough enemies to pump itself up to fight.

The memo should be Topic A for financial analysts, who are gathering at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters today for their annual meeting with company leaders.

“It’s going to be a rocky day,” said one Microsoft source.

And how! Especially given the need to explain the memo in more detail, including plans for beating back incursions by more nimble companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG).

Ballmer took a baby step in that direction in the strategy email to employees.

About Apple, for example, Ballmer wrote:

In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the Read the rest of this entry »

July 29th, 2008
July 28th, 2008
  • Paar wundeschöne Tage aufm Land bei den Eltern verbracht. Endlich wieder Boden unter den Füßen, für das nächste Quartal in der IT-Hölle
July 28th, 2008
  • Paar wundeschöne Tage aufm Land bei den Eltern verbracht. Endlich wieder Boden unter den Füßen, für das nächste Quartal in der IT-Hölle
July 25th, 2008
  • Packen für den Kurzurlaub in der Heimat. I-O ich komme, juchuu!
  • @lajessie Vodka!
  • @nivcalderon TNG is definetly the best Star Trek ever. Its kinda ethical lessons
  • @philippstrube Poolparty oda was?
  • FINALLY I started to write my businessplan for my company http://www.darearts.net. Need the biz-plan confirmed so I’ll receive financial support.
  • @JesseStay I want one of those pics too! Will you publish tehm? Please blog ‘em, ok? ;-)
  • Listening to chilly SomaFM again http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad Best music for getting some writing work done..
July 24th, 2008
  • WTF???? Russland: Emo und Gothic Musik soll zum “Jugendschutz” verboten werdenhttp://tinyurl.com/5bahal
July 23rd, 2008
  • Moin twitter! Aus gegebenen Anlaß möchte ich meinem Lieblings-Telefonterror-Kollegen ein Lied widmen: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yl9QLOHtR1g
  • wow, integrated the GMail addon for integrating RememberTheMilk.com tasks. Works perfectly, even connected to Google Calendar! High Five!
  • goodnight twitter! I’m sick and feel like flu, so go to bed already..
July 22nd, 2008
July 21st, 2008
  • Gibts eingentlich irgendwo online nen funktionierenden Mirror für http://www.jaganelli.de? Hab Entzug nach “lecka Pomis essen”
  • @vlad_perun Stimmt! Ist twitter für Bürohengste! :-D
  • @philipp_popula Jupp, auch mal des neue Facebook gucken! Fein gemacht!
  • jupp, auch zur pl=gbar geht. aber zu faul zum registrieren bei mixxt ist. http://tinyurl.com/5czloq
  • doing some work on my Lawyers’ blog http://www.strafverteidigerblog.de/
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