No winners in Google-Microsoft spat, but one clear loser: Users everywhere

Microsoft's 'terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad' week

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August 16, 2013
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Wishful thinking won't reverse Microsoft's misfortune

Thanks to the consumerization trend that has shifted more technology decision-making to users, bad products will fail most of the time. Microsoft can't force-feed us inferior products and hope for the best, as they sometimes could in the past.

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Issue highlights

1. No winners in Google-Microsoft spat, but one clear loser: Users everywhere

2. Microsoft's 'terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad' week

3. Quiz: Name that hacker

4. CIOs Need to Push BYOD Policies to Lure Millennials

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No winners in Google-Microsoft spat, but one clear loser: Users everywhere

Not content to fight over, er, everything, tech giants battle over YouTube and HTML -- at the expense of the user experience. READ MORE

Microsoft's 'terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad' week

With apologies to author Judith Viorst, Microsoft has Alexander beat hands down. This week's damage: Surface RT lawsuits, botched security patches, SkyDrive and Outlook.com outages, and a subpar Windows 8.1 leak. READ MORE

Quiz: Name that hacker

After breaking into networks for fun, profit, and to fulfill political agendas, some did prison time. Who were they? See if you remember. READ MORE

CIOs Need to Push BYOD Policies to Lure Millennials

In less than two years, millennials will make up the largest segment of the workforce. If you hope to attract GenY technology professionals, your IT strategy better include a bring-your-own-device plan that plays to the strengths of this tech-dependent generation. READ MORE

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