Microsoft have just announced their first ever quarterly loss in their corporate history, losing $492 million, albeit with a $6.2 billion write-down after its ill-fated (read: stupid) purchase of online advertising business aQuantive. That write-down is enough to get an asterisk beside this loss, although Microsoft’s ludicrously misjudged Online Services strategy meant something like this was only a matter…
The Return of the King
I’ve been religiously watching Wimbledon finals since I was about five, but yesterday’s held a special sort of joy that I haven’t experienced in many years – the joy of seeing greatness revived. Last year, Brian Phillips wrote a touching, perceptive piece about the long autumn of Roger Federer’s career, a prolonged “still” phase –…
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