To: Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Corp. From: David Coursey, Editor-at-Large, SiliconAngle Re: Fixing Microsoft from the inside out First, congratulations on becoming Microsoft’s third CEO. Your background is much closer to Bill’s than Steve’s, which is a good thing. There are some who say pushing innovation is not your job. I say that if the ...

Cloud services are supposed to be many things, but chief among them may be cost-effective. And good for startups. Except when it isn’t and that is today’s story. Using the cloud is widely considered to be less expensive than staffing your own data center, but some Amazon Web Services customers are discovering just the opposite ...

Has Google become just a warehouse for well-educated, overpaid 20-somethings, that exists only to keep them from actually accomplishing something? At another company, of course. How many of these people will be functionally useless when Google spits them out, to be replaced with the next group of kids with perishable skills? What innovations would these ...

Today, I want to deal with the first of two big lies promulgated by the technology tweeting class. The first lie is that Windows 8 really sucks. The second is that desktops and notebooks are going away soon. Truth: Windows 8 isn’t all that bad, though the Metro user interface can make that hard to ...

For a few hours, I was really mad at Tom Perkins. Next, I thought it was funny to watch a great man dive off into the deep end and drag his reputation down with him. Today, I am sad and a little ashamed of myself for my glee in watching a great man self-destruct. I’d ...

The last great American data center will be closed by the end of January 2020. How do I know this? Because except for a very few companies, the cost of maintaining a data center is rapidly becoming more than what it would cost to outsource. Yet, it’s not really about the money. This is how ...