Preston Gralla
Contributing Editor at Computerworld
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Preston Gralla is the author of more than 40 books about technology and a contributing editor and Windows blogger and columnist for Computerworld.
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2 weeks ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
Microsoft is worth roughly $1 trillion today, but that sky-high valuation didn’t come without a few train wrecks during its first 50 years. I’m not talking about smaller screwups like the brain-dead Clippy, Microsoft’s intrusive Office helper from 1995. Instead, I’m looking at the ones with major consequences that in some cases set Microsoft back years, made it lose out on important markets, and cost the company billions of dollars. Here are the company’s four worst screw-ups.
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1 month ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
Microsoft followed suit with countless other business services and software, including SQL Server, Power BI, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and many more. Microsoft soon owned the enterprise market. In 2000, Steve Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO. Under his hard-charging, sometimes clownish leadership that focused obsessively on Windows to the detriment of other products and technologies, Microsoft slowly drifted into irrelevance.
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1 month ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
Microsoft is on top of the world right now, riding its AI dominance to become the world’s second-most valuable company, worth somewhere in the vicinity of $3 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price. But that could easily change — and not because competitors have found a way to topple it as king of AI.
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2 months ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
Microsoft has ridden its multibillion-dollar investments in generative AI (genAI) to become the world’s second-most valuable company, with a valuation of roughly $3 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price. This year, it plans to invest $80 billion on data center costs alone, and that doesn’t count how much it’s spending to build its in-house AI team. At some point, though, Microsoft needs to start getting serious revenue from its genAI investments.
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2 months ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
Microsoft and Apple were once the yin and yang of the tech world. Microsoft was dull and plodding, milking buggy, barely-good-enough-for-prime-time Windows for tremendous profits, thanks to a worldwide operating system monopoly. The company was incapable of creating new, innovative products, and relied on sharp-elbowed (and potentially illegal) business practices to stay atop the tech world. Apple was its polar opposite.
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Microsoft claims Big Tech and the feds need to regulate A.I. If so, why did the company kill its most important ethics team regulating A.I. months ago, as I reported a few days ago in my Computerworld column? https://t.co/VkV8n5TbqO https://t.co/xglLh3Ob8R
Rabbit apocalypse: How can I stop them from eating all the herbs and greens in my urban garden, without resorting to the stew pot? https://t.co/DAa2LL9dfI
What happens to everyday life when missiles rain from the sky? I review "War Diary" by Yevgenia Belorusets, which chronicles life in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, after the Russian invasion. It blends the visceral with the mundane, dread replacing normalcy. https://t.co/CfdkS5jlcA