Fahad HApr 28, 20171 min readMicrosoft reports $23.5 billion in revenue but misses Wall Street expectationsMicrosoft announced quarterly earnings Thursday afternoon, with earnings that beat expectations, while revenues just missed Wall Street...
Fahad HApr 4, 20171 min readAndroid now the world’s dominant OS, surpassing WindowsAccording to StatCounter, the Android operating system has now passed Microsoft Windows as the leading OS globally. The data reflect...
Fahad HApr 29, 20162 min readMicrosoft blocks Google Chrome & other browsers from Cortana in latest Windows 10 releaseSorry, Google. You, Firefox, Opera and anyone else with a web browser that competes with Microsoft’s Edge will no longer be able to work...
Fahad HJan 28, 20163 min readMicrosoft’s $25.7 Billion In Quarterly Revenue & $0.78 EPS Beat, Shares UpMicrosoft this afternoon announced non-GAAP holiday quarterly revenue of $25.7 billion, net income of $6.3 billion and $0.78 EPS. These...
Fahad HOct 6, 20153 min readMicrosoft Announces Surface Book, Surface Pro 4 & New Lumia PhonesToday, Microsoft announced its first-ever full-fledged laptop, the Surface Book. It also announced the latest in its tablet line, the...
Fahad HJul 9, 20153 min readMicrosoft CEO Nadella Rebukes Ballmer With Nokia Write-DownCurrent Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is very pragmatic. He’s trying to focus the company on clear growth opportunities and areas where...
Fahad HMay 26, 20152 min readCortana For Android, iOS Coming Very Soon, Windows 10 To Sync With iPhones, AndroidMicrosoft is making Windows 10 cross-device friendly. To that end the new operating system will work with Android and the iPhone to sync...
Fahad HApr 30, 20151 min readLive Blog: Microsoft Build 2015 Opening Keynote, Day 2It’s the second day of Microsoft’s annual developers conference, Build, happening in San Francisco. Once again, it’s opening with a...
Fahad HApr 29, 20152 min readHow Microsoft Plans For Windows 10 To Rule The World By Leveraging iOS & Android“All your code bases are belong us.” Let me modify that internet meme to sum up the big news from Microsoft’s Build developer conference...
Fahad HJan 26, 20152 min readHighlights From MSFT Earnings: Surface Sells, Bing Revenue Up, Windows StrugglesMicrosoft announced fiscal quarterly revenues this afternoon. The company had $26.5 million in revenue (up 8 percent YoY) and $7.8...
Fahad HJan 21, 20151 min readMicrosoft Brings Cortana To Desktop; Announces HoloLens To Bring Holograms EverywhereTwo big news events came out of Microsoft’s “Windows 10 Briefing” today.” First, Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana is coming to...
Fahad HJul 17, 20142 min readMicrosoft Cutting 18K Jobs As It Integrates Nokia And Tries To “Move Faster”announced widely anticipated layoffs this morning. A total of 18,000 jobs will be eliminated by June 30, 2015, most by the end of the...
Fahad HJul 7, 20141 min readForecast: In 2015, There Will Be About 4 Android Devices For Every Windows Or Mac/iOS Device In 2015Android devices already beat Windows, Mac and iOS devices by a wide margin, and a new forecast from Gartner sees that growing even more...
Fahad HApr 3, 20141 min readMicrosoft Releases Advertising SDKs And Tools For Windows App MonetizationThough Cortana is has generated the biggest headlines from Microsoft’s annual Build Conference, the company dangled a few new carrots to...
Fahad HMar 27, 20142 min readTraditional PCs Shrink To 10 Percent Of Device Market In 2015I projected today that overall device shipments (not sales) would increase this year by nearly 7 percent vs. 2013. Sale of traditional...
Fahad HMar 20, 20143 min readHow Users Of Various OSes Differ In Their Online Behavior Over TimeFor marketers, timing is often as important as creative, the most obvious example being campaigns tied to particular holidays. These...
Fahad HJun 27, 20131 min readAndroid To Become Dominant Platform, US iPad Share Growssome new hardware forecast figures that try to capture the future of devices and operating systems. The firm says the market is “being...
Fahad HJun 26, 20132 min readMicrosoft Windows 8.1 Preview Includes New Start Button, Enhanced Search, Redesigned App Store &Windows 8, Microsoft launched a pre-release of Windows 8.1 today at the Microsoft Build Developers Conference in San Francisco. The...
Fahad HJun 19, 20131 min readMicrosoft Unveils New Ad Solution For Windows 8 Apps, Aimed At BrandsThe new solution came out of Microsoft’s partnership with creative agencies — including AKQA, Big Spaceship, Razorfish, Team...
Fahad HApr 18, 20132 min readMicrosoft Posts $20.49B Quarterly Revs: Online Ads Worth $784M, Rev Per Search Upreported $20.49 billion in fiscal quarterly revenue (Q3 13). That figure was just shy of analysts’ consensus estimates of $20.5 billion;...
