Joe Wilcox

Last week, bloggers chattered about AT&T’s exclusive iPhone contract expiring in 2010 and Verizon’s desire to carry Apple’s smartphone in 2011. It was a silly discussion because Apple’s bigger problem is China. The company desperately needs a carrier distribution deal in the world’s largest cell phone market. China distribution is something that must happen soon, […]

Oracle is killing Sun Microsystems. The two companies announced the $7.4 billion deal the morning of April 20. For the rest of the tech industry, it’s a sad day. Dress in black and mourn. One of Silicon Valley’s finest is gone. If the Valley were a tree, Sun would be one of its major roots. […]

Some Apple iPhone supporters are rejoicing over Nokia’s April 16 earnings announcement. Nokia reported a stunning 90 percent year-over-year decline in profits for first quarter and a first-ever pretax loss. The world’s largest handset maker, along with Research In Motion, stands between iPhone and world dominance. Yesterday, Mac blogger John Gruber (aka Daring Fireball) wrote […]

A crisis is looming over the global PC market that Microsoft must work with OEMs to stop. If not, the last vestige of palatable margins will be lost. Forever. Netbooks are cannibalizing the mobile PC market, by destroying margins, at a shockingly alarming rate. Yesterday, Gartner and IDC both released first-quarter PC shipment data. Worldwide, […]

Microsoft almost certainly will ship Windows 7 in 2009, and the release candidate is expected no later than May 30. The timing is bad for many enterprises because of the economy’s impact on IT spending. But if your organization is running Windows XP-and the majority of organizations are-migration is inevitable. Mainstream Windows XP support ended […]

25 Things You Didnt Know About Microsoft by Joe Wilcox Editor, Microsoft WatchMany Facebook users have been tagged by the “25 Things About Me” meme. A few years ago, a similar “five things” tagging moved through the blogosphere. eWEEK editors would tag Microsoft if we realistically expected a response. So we’ve done our own research […]

Microsoft’s 10 Lucky Breaks It’s the second of three Friday 13ths this year. Last month, we looked at ‘Microsoft’s 10 Unlucky Breaks’ Now it’s Microsoft’s ‘Lucky’ Friday the 13th. The company’s rise through the 1980s and 1990s is really a series of lucky breaks combined with business savvy and execution on the vision of one […]

Amazon.com Turns iPhone into Killer E-book Reader by Joe WilcoxEditor, Apple Watch No Title On March 3, Amazon.com quietly released the “Kindle for iPhone” e-book reading software. The application, available through Apple’s App Store, makes about 240,000 Kindle e-books available for the iPhone. No Title The Kindle and iPhone share 3G wireless in common. Like […]

New Macs Pull Hard on the Heart, Harder on the Wallet by Joe WilcoxEditor, Apple Watch No Title The new iMacs feature a smaller keyboard, without numeric keys. Good thing Apple bundles iLife and not iWork with the new Macs. How will you use Numbers without a numeric keypad? No Title People looking for a […]

Microsofts 10 Unlucky Breaks by Joe Wilcox, Editor, Microsoft Watch No Title It’s Friday the 13th, the unluckiest day of the year. How has Microsoft’s luck been over the past 34 years? The company’s rise through the 1980s and 1990s was really a series of lucky breaks combined with business savvy and execution on the […]