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Microsoft announced a major strategic overhaul yesterday, shifting to a 'One Microsoft all the time' organizational structure. Now, all of Microsoft's business are in five main functional silos irrespective of platform. I applaud the move.…

I keep going on and on about how mobile is where the technology industry is moving. So clearly the access/telecom end of that is going to be important. The T-mobile move to unbundle the handset subsidy from the telecom monthly fee is a bold…

I have a few threads on tech that I am going to breakup into multiple posts here. The first two threads are on Adobe's move into a cloud computing-only based software model and on Nokia's dogged pursuit of the windows mobile platform, now…

Today's daily commentary is going to be on technology. Over the past few years, I have been writing here at Credit Writedowns that we are in the midst of a massive platform shift in technology toward a mobile-centric world. As Michael…

I just want to follow up on my comments from Tuesday on consolidation and convergence in the TMT arena. There has been another slew of reports out in tech world showing that all of the big players are jumping into each other's turf in a…

What I am seeing is a second great wave of consolidation in the industry. And by that I mean that every large company is getting into the traditional space of every other large company. Let's go down a sample list of some of the changes…

While I was on my Easter break, I came up with what I think is a good format to both reward paying subscribers of Credit Writedowns Pro with good content and post outside the paywall at the same time. I have been toying with various ways to…

Today s going to be a bit light on posting as I am under the weather and have been in bed all day. But there are one or two stories I wanted to say something about while it was still topical. One of those is LinkedIn. This post isn't about…

Last month I wrote a weekly post on the technology industry noting that the paradigm shift to cloud computing is in full swing. The most important facet of cloud computing in terms of business model disruption is its effects on platform…

When I worked at Yahoo! ten years ago during the age of Terry Semel, Yahoo! was being turned into a media company. I always saw this strategic move as a mistake - the strategic error that allowed Google to usurp Yahoo!'s position in search…