Windows 8 fails to reignite PC market: Gartner | Reuters

"Tablets have dramatically changed the device landscape for PCs, not so much by 'cannibalizing' PC sales, but by causing PC users to shift consumption to tablets rather than replacing older PCs," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.
"Whereas as once we imagined a world in which individual users would have both a PC and a tablet as personal devices, we increasingly suspect that most individuals will shift consumption activity to a personal tablet, and perform creative and administrative tasks on a shared PC."

Windows 8 fails to reignite PC market: Gartner | Reuters

Microsoft, Toyota Announce $12 Million Partnership

Today Microsoft and Toyota announced a strategic partnership to build the "ultimate 'mobile device.'" Touted as a 1 billion yen investment in Toyota Media Service (a lot more catchy than saying $12 million), the partnership will have both companies team up to build a global cloud platform to support next-gen telematics in Toyota's hybrid and plug-in vehicles.

More at: Fast Company

In technology, being late can be as disastrous as being wrong.

Microsoft hasn’t just lost market share since the iPhone inaugurated the modern smartphone era, it has seen its position implode, falling to 5 percent in the second quarter from 22 percent in 2004.

... within five years, more users will connect to the Internet on mobile devices than the desktop computers that Microsoft has dominated for decades. Unless the company can establish a beachhead in mobile, it’s facing a long slow slide into irrelevance.

Rich Jaroslovsky - Bloomberg

Yahoo and Microsoft: search as a need, choice as a fact

Very basic:

With Microsoft and Yahoo operating independently, we had a choice of three top search engines and we used to choose Google. Basically because Google used to work better.

Now, people out there are saying that more choice will be available with the new deal between Microsoft and Yahoo. Sure, two is more than three.

And yes, I aggree... it will be easier to choose Google again. It keeps on working better and now there will be just one real alternative. Not 2. Keep it simple!