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Microsoft: With cloud services investments starting to pay off Windows 8 and Windows Blue will bring more competitive devices particularly in new smaller form factors targeting the tablet market

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Nacsa Sándor

This statement is the essential summary of Microsoft current performance according to the results in the first 3 months of 2013 and the near term actions the company declared now to further improve its stance, particularly in the market which … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, tablets | Tagged Bay Trail, buying experience, chips, chipsets, cloud devices, cloud OS, cloud services, device market, distribution, first-party apps, fourth generation Intel Core processor, hardware and software ecosystem, Haswell, hybrid PCs, licensing revenue, MBD, Microsoft, Microsoft Business Division, OEMs, Office 365, Office market, Office subscription, PC market, productivity market, Q3 FY13 performance, Q4 FY13 outlook, revenue, Skype, small touch devices, smaller form factors, Surface, Surface Pro, Tablets, third-party apps, touch-enabled computing devices, traditional PC, traditional PC market, transition from the traditional PC, Windows 8, Windows Blue, Windows business, Windows Division, Windows market | 1 Comment

Saving Intel: next-gen Intel ultrabooks for enterprise and professional markets from $500; next-gen Intel notebooks, other value devices and tablets for entry level computing and consumer markets from $300

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Nacsa Sándor

OR “2 for 1” (or “two-for-one”) touch and voice enabled ultrabooks of convertible and detachable form factors with Haswell / 4th generation Intel Core processor family (shipping now and on track for Q2’13 launch) starting as low as $500. Touch-enabled … Continue reading →

Posted in consumer computing, consumer devices, Enterprise computing, notebooks, tablets | Tagged 14nm, 2 for 1, 22nm, 22nm Tri Gate, 4th generation Intel Core processor, Android, Atom SoC, Bay Trail, Bay Trail D, Bay Trail M, clamshell laptops, consumer market, convertible form factors, convertibles detachables, desktops, detachable form factors, Enterprise Market, entry level computing, foundry, full PC experience, Haswell, IDF 2013 Beijing, Intel, Intel Media, Intel WiDi, Kirk Skaugen, Lenovo, more competitive Atom, multi OS support, next generation, notebooks, ODMs, OEMs, Paul Otellini, PC ecosystem, professional market, Set-Top Box, SoC, System on Chip, technology transitions, Tick-Tock model, Toshiba, touch enablement, touch price points, touch-enabled thin notebooks, two-for-one, Ultrabook detachable, Ultrabook reference design, Ultrabook™ Convertible, Ultrabooks, value all-in-one computers, value convertibles, value devices, voice enablement, Windows 8, Windows 8 adoption | 1 Comment

Windows RT Buzz: only the naming will disappear?

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Nacsa Sándor

Microsoft defends Windows RT as necessary disruption [CNET, March 21, 2013]vs.Microsoft to merge Windows RT into next-generation Windows OS [DIGITIMES, March 27, 2013] These headlines tell everything. And don’t forget, end of March is the end of PRISM when all … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, SoC, tablets | Tagged ARM, Atom, Intel, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Windows 8, Windows Blue, Windows RT | 1 Comment

Windows Azure Media Services OR Intel & Microsoft going together in the consumer space (again)?

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Nacsa Sándor

With Intel Media: 10-20 year leap in television this year [Feb 16, 2013] and Microsoft entertainment as an affordable premium offering to be built on the basis of the Xbox console and Xbox LIVE services [Feb 13, 2013] this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud SW engineering, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer devices, consumer computing, TVs | Tagged Client Ecosystem for Windows Azure Media Services, consumer space, dynamic packaging, EDD, Entertainment and Devices Division, H.265, HEVC, IIS Media Services, Intel, Intel Media, IPTV, live streaming, Mediaroom, Microsoft, Microsoft Media Platform, MPEG-DASH, on-demand streaming, streaming platform, streaming server, Windows 8, Windows Azure Media Services, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Services, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE | 2 Comments

Analysis: Michael Dell acquiring the rest 84% stake in Dell for $2.15B in cash, before becoming the next IBM, and even getting the cash back after the transaction

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Nacsa Sándor

OR Michael Dell’s new cash skimming strategy by privatization and targeting the high-growth and fast SME/SMB (small to medium-sized) businesses with solutions worldwide which will help the adoption of Dell solutions by larger enterprises later on as well. OR how … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing strategy, Enterprise computing, Geopolitics, Pre-Commerce, servers | Tagged Active Systems infrastructure family, Ajay Kaul, AppAssure, application and data integration, applications, Bangalore, BI, big data analytics, Big Data Transformation, Boomi, Bring your own device, business analytics and intelligence, Business Intelligence, BYOD, channel, channel partners, channel program, channel sales force, China, CIO needs, Citrix, cloud computing, cloud management, Cloudera Apache Hadoop, Consumerization of IT, Converged Infrastructure, data center, data protection and management, datacenter infrastructure, DCS, Dell, Dell acquisition strategy, Dell acquisitions, Dell Active Infrastructure, Dell Active System, Dell AppAssure, Dell Boomi, Dell Clerity Solutions, Dell Cloud Business Applications, Dell Cloud Client Computing, Dell Data Center Solutions, Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions, Dell EMEA, Dell Engineers Club, Dell Enterprise Solutions and Services, Dell Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell Global Commercial Channel, Dell India, Dell KACE, Dell Make Technologies, Dell OpenManage Essentials, Dell PartnerDirect, Dell push-pull supply chain strategy, Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse, Dell SecureWorks, Dell Software Group, Dell software strategy, Dell SonicWALL, Dell Wyse Cloud Client Manager, Dell Wyse PocketCloud, Dell's balance sheet, Dell's Engineers Club, Dell's transformation, desktop virtualization, distribution, DVS, DVS Simplified, DVS Simplified DaaS, end-to-end IT solutions, endpoint management, enterprise solution developer, enterprise solutions strategy, enterprise specialists, enterprise strategy, entrepreneurial companies, explosion of data, full service software and enterprise solution provider, GCC, go to market, IBM, in memory computing, in memory databases, India, Indian market, information management, Infrastructure Optimization, innovation, investment, Jai Menon, John Swainson, KACE, LBO, leveraged buyout, long-term strategic plans, Marius Haas, Michael Dell, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics AX, mid-market, mid-market companies, Mid-size organizations, mobile workforce, more accessible cloud, new generation of management and operations solutions, next IBM, PartnerDirect, partners, PC business, PC ecosystem, PC market, performance monitoring, Perot Systems, PocketCloud, pre-integrated stacks, private enterprise, private-equity, Project RIPTide, Project Stratus, qualified partners, Quest Identity and Access Management, Quest Software, real-time analytics, roadmap, SAP HANA, Scalent, security, security solutions, SecurityWorks, services business, SharePoint, Silver Lake, single-source provider of corporate cloud and security solutions, small and medium businesses, small to medium-sized companies, SMB, SME, SME channels, software portfolio, solution oriented approach, solutions, solutions provider, SonicWall, stock market, strategic acquisitions, support heterogeneous and next-generation virtualized and cloud environments, sweet spot, Systems Management, Thin/Zero Client futures, transformation, US, VDI appliance, VDI-in-a-Box, Virtual Desktop futures, virtualisation management, virtualization, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server management, Wyse Technologies | Leave a comment

Intel’s biggest flop: at least 3-month delay in delivering the power management solution for its first tablet SoC

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

This is all despite the fact that Intel had already the following slides back in April on the IDF2012 in Beijing: i.e. the slide on the left was explicitly stating these Mobility Features:- 9+ Hours Battery Life- ~30 Days Standbyas … Continue reading →

Posted in consumer computing, consumer devices, SoC, tablets | Tagged Acer, Acer Iconia W510, ASUS VivoTab Smart, ATIV Smart PC 500T, battery life, Clover Trail, Clover Trail Windows 8 tablets, Connected Standby, Connected Standby HCK requirement for battery life, Connected Standby requirement for battery life, Connected Standby Windows Hardware Certification Kit requirement for battery life, Connected Standby Windows requirement for battery life, Dell, Dell Latitude 10, Desktop Activity Moderator, device driver, Envy x2, HP, HP ElitePad tablet, HP Envy x2, Iconia W510, Intel, Latitude 10, Lenovo ThinkPad 2, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) testing, mobility features, new class of PCs, Paul Otellini, PEP, power efficiency for applications, Power Engine Plug-in, power management, power management solution, power-management driver software, Samsung, Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500T, silicon manufacturer, sleep states, standby battery life, tablet SoC, ThinkPad 2, ultra low power states, VivoTab Smart, WHQL compliant drivers, Windows 8, Windows RT, Z2760 | 5 Comments

Dell Latitude 10: Windows 8 Clover Trail (Intel Z2760) hybrid tablets from OEMs

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

The new Dell Latitude [10] tablet [Exclusive24x7News YouTube channel, Dec 11, 2012] The video was originally produced for Dell Latitude gets things done [by STUART KENNEDY in the The Australian IT, Dec 11, 2012]: SITTING next to Apple’s sleek iPad … Continue reading →

Posted in consumer devices, design, Geopolitics | Tagged application load times, business tablet, business-class tablet, business-grade, business-grade security, Clover Trail, Competition, conventional tablet PC mode, Dell, Dell drops Android, Dell Latitude, Dell Quits Smartphone Business, Dell World 2012, Dell World 2012 Influencer Panel, device management, docking, easy access to virtual private networks, hands-free usage mode, hybrid tablets, Influencer Panel, Intel, Intel Atom, Intel Z2760, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, OEMs, PCMark 7 test, productivity mode, Surface, tablet competition, touch+type, Windows 8, Windows 8 opportunity, Windows tablet competition, Wistron | 1 Comment

Marko Ahtisaari from Nokia and Steven Guggenheimer from Microsoft on the Internet of Things day of LeWeb Paris’12

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

Marko Ahtisaari: From the HERE location cloud, through design (principles) and new Lumia 620 announced, to the Internet of (Small) Things, or Nokia’s vision for IoT [leweb YouTube channel, Dec 5, 2012] – [02:20] Now the Internet is everywhere around … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, embedded computing, intelligent systems, smartphones, tablets | Tagged Android’s model, Apple, Apple’s model, carriers, CIOs, David Kirkpatrick, design, design principles, developers, developing world, differentiated selling proposition, digital world, ecosystem, enterprise IT, Google, hardware manufacturers, HERE location cloud, Internet of (Small) Things, Internet of Things, IOT, LeWeb, Lumia 620, Marko Ahtisaari, Microsoft, Microsoft vision, Microsoft’s model, Nokia, Nokia vision, operators, partners, platform, Samsung, shipper, Steven Guggenheimer, Steven Sinofsky, vision for IoT, visionary, Windows, Windows 8, Windows Embedded, Windows Phone 8 | 6 Comments

$99 Android 4.0.3 7” IPS tablet with an Allwinner SoC capable of 2160p Quad HD and built-in HDMI–another inflection point, from China again

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

[This is a huge, compiled collection basically finished in September, 2012. Contains updates till November, 2012. It was published in early December, 2012. A new USD 99 Allwinner blog was launched on Nov 30, 2012 based on this compilation. Please … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, Geopolitics, SoC, tablets | Tagged $99, 2013, 2160p, 3D TV, 4K, A10, A10s, A13, AAPPAA, Acer, Actions Semiconductor, Ainol, Allwinner, Allwinner EOMA-68-compliant module, AllWinner Technology, AMLogic, Ampe, Android, Android tablet SoC, Android tablet wars, Andy Grove, ARM Holdings, Asustek, Ballmer, Bmorn, branded tablets, CedarX, CEVO Engine, Charbax, Chimei Innolux, China, China grey market, Chinese semiconductor industry, CMMB, contract manufacturers, crowd funding, Cubieboard, CUBIETECH, 珠海, devices and services, Digitimes Research, DisplaySearch, DPU, DRAM market, Eken, embedded Linux, Embedded Open Modular Architecture, EOMA-68, EOMA-68 CPU Card, EUHT, 赵广民先, FLOSS, Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics, Gemei, Glassless 3D, global market, Guangdong, Haipad, hardware is dead, HD video codec, Hott, IC design company, ICOO, IDC, IHS iSuppli, Infotmic, iNote, Intel, investment bank, Junko Yoshida, LG, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton, mainland China, mainland China IC design companies, MediaTek, Mele, Mele A1000, Mele A2000, memory chips, Microsoft, Miracast, Miracast Wireless Display, mobile device market, Mobile PC, Mobile TV, MP3 chips, Nicolas Charbonnier, non-Apple tablets, NPD DisplaySearch, NS115, Nufront, NVIDIA Tegra 3, OMG, Onda, Only the Paranoid Survive, PC Card, PC market, PCMCIA card, PCMCIA CPU Card, Ployer, PRC, PRC IC design, Quad HD, Rhombus Tech, RK3066, Rockchip, Rockchip Electronics, Samsung, Sanei, Shanzhai, Shenzhen, Shenzhen SMIT, strategic inflection point, Supply chain, T-MMB, tablet market, Tablet PCs, Teclast, Tom Cubie, Toshiba, Toshiba Regza RZ1, TSMC, UHT, USD 99 Allwinner, VIA, VIA8850, Victory Microelectronics, VPU, white-box tablet PCs, white-box tablet vendors, white-box tablets, white-box vendors, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi Direct, Windows 8, Windows 8 tablets, Zhang Jianhui, Zhao Guangmin, Zhao Guangmin Memorial, Zhuhai, Zhuhai Victory Technology, 全志, 张建辉 | 8 Comments

Can VIA Technologies save the mobile computing future of the x86 (x64) legacy platform?

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

After Urgent search for an Intel savior [this same blog, Nov 21, 2012] this is a quite legitimate and important question. Watch Cher Wang, the founder and still the chairman of the VIA Technologies (also HTC), speaking about the enterpreneurship … Continue reading →

Posted in embedded computing, Geopolitics, intelligent systems, SoC | Tagged 40nm, 64-bit, 65nm, Advantech, Apple, ARM designs, Atom, Bonnell, Bonnell microarchitecture, carrier board, Centaur, Centaur Technology, Cher Wang, Chromotion, cloud computing, CN-Q, CN-R, COM, COM Express, Computer-on-Module, COTS, Devon IT, digital signage, driver support, Eden X2, Em-ITX, encryption, EPIA, ETX, fanless design, Glenn Henry, hardware encryption, HP, HTC, instruments, Intel Atom, Internet of Things, IOT, Isaiah, Isaiah microarchitecture, Kernel-based Virtual Machine, Kontron, KVM, KVM hypervisor, low-power, low-power servers, market share, media processing, Media System Processor, medical computing, medical devices, Mini-ITX, mini-PCs, mobile computing, Mobile-ITX, MSP, Nano, Nano-ITX, on-the-fly encryption, out-of-order, PadLock, PICMG, Pico-ITX, POS terminals, Posiflex Technology, Q Seven, QSeven, QuadCore, S3 Graphics, Seco, security co-processor, semi-embedded, SFF, SGet, Silvermont, small form factor, SOM, speculative out-of-order, stackable computer, Standardisation Group for Embedded Technologies, System-on-Module, thin clients, ULP-COM, VIA ARTiGO, VIA ARTiGO A1150, VIA ARTiGO A1200, VIA ARTiGO A1250, VIA Chrome 640\645, VIA Chromotion, VIA Eden, VIA Embedded, VIA EPIA-P910, VIA Nano, VIA Nano 3000 Series, VIA Nano DC Platform, VIA Nano X2, VIA QuadCore, VIA Technologies, VIA V4 bus, VIA VAB-800 Pico-ITX, VIA Vinyl, VIA VN1000, Vinyl, VX11, VX11 chipset, VX900, VX900 chipset, Wenchi Chen, Windows 8, WonderMedia, WonderMedia PRIZM SoC, WTI, x64, x86, xITX, xITX Standards, ZOTAC | 6 Comments

Tag Archives: Windows 8

Saving Intel: next-gen Intel ultrabooks for enterprise and professional markets from $500; next-gen Intel notebooks, other value devices and tablets for entry level computing and consumer markets from $300

Windows RT Buzz: only the naming will disappear?

Windows Azure Media Services OR Intel & Microsoft going together in the consumer space (again)?

Intel’s biggest flop: at least 3-month delay in delivering the power management solution for its first tablet SoC

Dell Latitude 10: Windows 8 Clover Trail (Intel Z2760) hybrid tablets from OEMs

Marko Ahtisaari from Nokia and Steven Guggenheimer from Microsoft on the Internet of Things day of LeWeb Paris’12

$99 Android 4.0.3 7” IPS tablet with an Allwinner SoC capable of 2160p Quad HD and built-in HDMI–another inflection point, from China again

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