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From Stephen Elop’s ‘Burning Platform’ to Satya Nadella’s ‘Mobile First Cloud First’ Microsoft has traveled a road full of deceptively simple yet intricate curves. The journey started with a bet on touch-friendly version of Windows and evolved into a device focused strategy that resulted in Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia and introduction of the Surface tablet line. Today, almost 3 years after the release of the Windows 8, the Redmond giant has released its latest version of computer operating system for general availability. The users of Windows 7 and 8 who had reserved there copy of free Windows will be able to get the upgrade as an update that can be downloaded from Windows Update in control panel. Even though Microsoft earlier announced that it will roll out the upgrade in phases, which might span over days and even weeks, I was lucky enough to receive mine the very next morning. Many users of Windows 10 Insider Program are well aware of what to expect from the full relea...

  Writers have been penning down the history of personal computers since not so long and every such text has one way or another revolved around Steve Jobs. Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine wrote about his rivalry with Bill Gates in Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer and almost 3 decades later Walter Isaacson, a renowned American author and former executive of CNN and Times, published a best-selling biography which covers almost every aspects of his life. A visionary genius? Nerd? Billion Dollar Hippy? It is simply not ‘possible enough’ to capture the life of Jobs from a garage in Los Altos, California to Infinity Square with literal constraints. His countercultural life style, complex relationships and intimate obsession with nature and Zen sketch an image that has way more than (your everyday) 50 shades. Noah Wyle’s portrayal of young and rebellious Steve Jobs in 1999 TNT film Pirates of Silicon Valley is one of the best I have ever come across...