As Microsoft continues to offer newer, more innovative data platforms in the cloud, the SQL Server flagship is languishing. Here's what Microsoft needs to do to ensure it moves forward.
- By Andrew Brust
- 04/07/2015
So far, so good on the work Microsoft has done, but it still has lots of work to do to get more of its proprietary offerings into the open source development pipeline. The other challenge is being able to monetize it where it makes sense.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/15/2014
Continuum mode takes developers to the next evolutionary step, but Microsoft has to offer developers a more universal approach to developing Windows 10 apps for the various devices and form factors.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 10/06/2014
Microsoft Azure has caught up with AWS in many areas. In a couple of others, it's actually pulled ahead.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/31/2014
Microsoft's newest CEO seems to understand the challenges Microsoft faces, and is positioning the company to re-assert its preeminent place in the industry.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/04/2014
Satya Nadella, Scott Guthrie usher in a new era of openness and sharper vision.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/09/2014
Microsoft needs fixing. Here's a list of the first things the new CEO should consider taking on.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 02/11/2014
Visual Studio 2013 ramps up the expectations of what Microsoft can do when it works as a cohesive team, instead of competing business units.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/02/2013
Microsoft is making a big bet that eliminating traditional divisional boundaries will help it be more efficient and build better products. It had better be right.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/08/2013
Microsoft's real value proposition is that it has a super-franchise made up of smaller constituent franchises.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/07/2013
Windows Azure may have been slow out of the gate, but Microsoft's efforts to make it more of an Infrastructure as a Service platform is starting to pay off.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/30/2013
Can Microsoft successfully straddle the fence between Windows desktop and the mobile app age? And what should you do about it?
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/09/2013
Microsoft needs to consider adding WebKit to Internet Explorer, or it could suffer painful consequences.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/06/2013
Microsoft, take note: Chromebooks and Chrome packaged apps, although primitive now, will get better. A lot better.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 02/04/2013
What's next on the data frontier? Microsoft will take us into the world of in-memory transactional databases and big data. And if you know how to write code and queries against SQL Server, then you already have the necessary skills to play there.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 01/02/2013