Archive - Ctrl + N

New

Ctrl + N was started last year as a weekly newsletter about all things Microsoft, and it had a fair run in terms of subscribers and open rates. However…

Oct 27, 2020 •

March 2020

New Windows... who dis?

It’s been a terrible few weeks with the global health concerns regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.

Mar 2, 2020 •

February 2020

Livin' on the Edge

There’s a new browser in town A little over a year ago, Microsoft announced its intention to rebuild Microsoft Edge on the Chromium open source project…

Feb 1, 2020 •

November 2019

Plenty of drama

Artificial Intelligence loses its Head According to an internal Microsoft announcement, Executive Vice President Harry Shum, a 23-year Microsoft veteran…

Nov 25, 2019 •

The Microsoft Ignite 2019 playlist

Last week, I was at Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando, FL. With over 25,000 attendees, Microsoft’s annual tech conference focused on software…

Nov 17, 2019 •

Cloud Ka-ching!

Microsoft announced the financial results for the first quarter of FY 2020 beating expectations and a 14% increase in revenue ($33.1 billion) as…

Nov 4, 2019 •

October 2019

Gaming... To the cloud!

First up, apologies for sending this late by a day. Just when I hit publish last evening, Substack, the service I use for the newsletter, chose to…

Oct 19, 2019 •

Embrace and Extend 2.0

The annual Surface event in New York on October 2, 2019 was the most appropriate representation of the new Microsoft under Satya Nadella. With a…

Oct 11, 2019 •

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