Sales, Social and Tech

Online users thought it was a steal for Microsoft Store Singapore to offer its soon-to-launch Office 2013 for only SGD5. From Hardwarezone Forum , "More SGD$5 deals here: [REMOVED] ___________________________________________________ UPDATE: Product have been taken down. Those who received their product keys, now we wait. Those who are waiting for their product keys, hope you get yours soon. " The Microsoft Store Singapore has since taken down the "$5 offer" and has offered a refund. Wrote Microsoft Singapore Facebook Page , "We recently learned that some Microsoft online store customers were able to purchase certain Office 2013 products from the Microsoft online store Singapore that were not generally advertised or priced for sale, and are still pending general release. To remedy the issue, we are issuing a full refund of these purchases of the Office 2013 products. To make up for any inconvenience, we have offered these customers a single use coup...

Ok.. Windows 8 just launched.  Steve Ballmer must be really excited. Maybe as excite as selling Windows1.0. And wow, Windows1.0 even had a clock!

When I blogged about how Microsoft wants to " smoke " Singaporeans when they launch "Get Smoked by Windows Phone" campaign here, a challenger in US who won  got "smoked" by Microsoft. "Smoke" in local Singapore slang means to bluff, cause confusion, etc.. A Samsung Galaxy Nexus user in the US challenged the Windows Phone and won, he was indeed "smoked" by the Microsoft store staff. Wrote Sahas Katta , My opponent finished a split-second later. She had two live tiles on her home screen displaying the weather of two different cities as well. Why does it take longer on Windows Phone? She had to perform two actions. First, she hit the power button to turn on the screen. Second, she had to swipe away the lock screen. That’s pretty much as fast as it gets on that platform. Windows Phone takes two interactions. Android takes just one.  After pressing for a better reason, I was told that Windows Phone won “just because.” Sahas Katta ...

I was invited to the media launch of Microsoft Office365 on Wednesday to get a taste of the Microsoft cloud offering for its Office applications. Microsoft had four customers to present their experience of using Office365. Most of them liked the familiarity of the Microsoft Office interface without having the complexity of hardware configuration or software download. All they needed to do was to get onto a browser and you are Office ready. Using Office on the cloud makes good economic sense especially if you do not have an IT team as a department.  Leave the IT to Microsoft and focus on the real work in the office. I remember working in a PR agency where they had their own servers to handle the mail exchange and data storage. However, the problem was that once the server goes down, there wasn’t anybody really trained to pinpoint the problem and find the solution. The reset button may come in handy in this case but sometimes it work, sometimes it didn’t. The outsourced IT...