It has near-monopoly status and nimble, disruptive competitors. We've seen this movie before.
By Jay R. Galbraith, president and founder, Galbraith Management Consultants
Galbraith questions Microsoft's resolve to change. Image: Galbraith Management
The more I learn about the current situation in software, the more Microsoft's position seems to mirror General Motors' position in the auto industry a few decades ago. Like Microsoft (MSFT) today, GM was an icon in its industry, held MORE
Nov 6, 2009 9:01 AM ET
Royal Caribbean Cruises hopes enviro-friendly Oasis of the Seas can burnish its green image.
The world's largest cruise ship -- featuring 16 decks and an interior Central Park that's longer than a football field with more than 12,000 species of flora -- is drawing ever closer to its home port of Port Everglades, Florida, where it will dock next week and conduct a few test runs before departing on its maiden MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Nov 6, 2009 6:47 AM ET
Microsoft moved a lot of install disks, but hardware makers got a bigger bump two years ago
Photo: Philip Elmer-DeWitt
When Microsoft (MSFT) launches a new operating system, as it did two weeks ago, PC manufacturers like Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL) and Acer are supposed to reap the benefits. And everything seemed to be in place on Thursday Oct. 22 for that to happen.
"Never before has the industry launched such MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 6, 2009 6:37 AM ETBen Baer, Senior Producer - Nov 5, 2009 3:45 PM ET
A look at the tomes that have tried -- with varying degrees of success -- to capture Apple's elusive leader.
By Daniel Okrent, contributor
Of all the pithy, pointed, and quotable sentences uttered about Steve Jobs during his three decades on the national scene, my favorite comes from an early Apple colleague: "He would have made an excellent king of France." Except even Louis XIV would envy the quantity of words spilled MORE
Nov 5, 2009 3:13 PM ETMason Cohn, Producer - Nov 5, 2009 1:26 PM ET
How Apple's imperious, brilliant CEO transformed American business.
It's Steve's world, we just live in it.
How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a MORE
Nov 5, 2009 11:37 AM ET
Runners-up include Gates, Buffett, Page, Brin, Winfrey, Stewart and -- wait for it -- Madoff
Photo: Time Inc.
Steve Jobs is the CEO of the decade, according to the new issue of Fortune magazine.
"Jobs is back," writes Adam Lashinsky in the cover story published Thursday. "It's as if his signature 'one more thing' line now applies to him as well. After a six-month leave of absence in the early part of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 5, 2009 10:54 AM ET
Undoing the dupe: A way out of your Big Software contracts
By Roger Burkhardt, CEO, Ingres
(Last month Burkhardt wrote about how Big Software companies lock customers into restrictive software licensing agreements and continue to raise prices, even during tough economic times. Here Burkhardt offers some tips for effectively renegotiating contracts with your current Big Software suppliers.)
Burkhardt tells how to untangle your company from Big Software. Photo: Ingres
For decades now many MORE
Nov 5, 2009 9:45 AM ET
Motorola and Verizon invited comparisons, and that's what they got
Photos: Motorola, Apple
The Droid lands in stores Friday, and on Thursday the heavyweight reviewers -- which is to say the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and the New York Times' David Pogue -- weighed in.
Given that Motorola (MOT) and Verizon (VZ) pitched the Droid in its first TV ad as everything Apple's (AAPL) and AT&T's (T) iPhone was not, it MORE
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