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Microsoft heralded as an innovator – it always has been

May 6, 2017 By Nicholas Kerr 1 Comment

Steve Jobs is quoted in his eponymous biography by Walter Isaacson as saying, “Microsoft simply ripped off what other people did.” It’s a persistent myth, espoused by many, that Microsoft won so many software battles with little or no product innovation. It’s all the more interesting to re-examine it at a time when headlines are […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Apple, market failure, Microsoft, Network effect, steve jobs

Always there family shopping lists with OneNote

May 31, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr 2 Comments

(Note that a version of this post was subsequently re-posted on the official Microsoft Office blog here.) While I’ve had OneNote as part of my Microsoft Office suite for years, I was a bit of a late adopter. Until recently I used it almost exclusively at work for taking meeting notes and keeping track of my To Do lists. […]

Filed Under: Daddy Rants Tagged With: family, Microsoft, Office, OneNote, Shopping

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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