The Shishir Kumar Website

Oct 28, 2010

The fall of a chip sets off a cascading effect. As the chips lined up in formations fall, a wave is created and vibrant colour pattern emerges. It was not a mean task at Microsoft’s Hyderabad Centre. The falling chips made a dazzling display of the logo of Windows 7, the operating system made available on October 22 last year. This was the way a team of...

What’s the toughest question a venture capitalist can ask? Answer: “What will you do if Google enters your market?” The web has been buzzing with speculation that senior Microsoft executives are now asking that question. The truth is that they have been asking it for quite a while. In an intriguing interview he gave several years ago, Bill...

Windows world The first version of Microsoft’s Windows was launched in 1985. Today, it runs on over 90 per cent of the world’s billion-plus computers Penguin flop The open source Linux operating system, developed in the early 1990s, has failed to challenge Windows and has a meagre 2 per cent market share SEARCH giant Google on Wednesday unveiled a...