Microsoft Live - Up on a cloud?
- 7th Nov 2007
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As Microsoft live services come out of Beta giving you web and desktop apps. Perhaps it’s time for us to tip our hats to the mighty big M.
Ok, the @live email folk are grumbling, but from a business point of view what software do you use ? Let me guess you were forced down the Microsoft route years ago? You just had to stay though didn’t you ;)
With the focus once again on social networks and actively sharing information Microsoft is a smart cookie indeed. Something is in my eye sorry, must be a Popfly-
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I have been using live writer for about a week now and I am really impressed with it, though I did have a few issues getting it to work. I guess I am used to that from MS now. I already use Outlook 2007 so there is not looked at Live Mail yet.
MS, like newspapers in the print world, is going to have a lot of trouble melding the cloud’s price point (free or nearly so) with its existing marketing infrastructure. Messing around on the web to get in front of eyeballs and garnering some favorable wow-MS-really-gets-it-THIS-time press dates back at least as far as hotmail. But, the reality is that they’ve spent much of the last decade treating the web as a bastard stepchild versus their blond-haired, blue-eyed baby; the MS desktop.
don’t hold back on your comments, please lol ;)
You know, basically I’m just plain mad at MS for blowing the lead they could have had. The last time I had any real respect for them regarding the web was when Gates locked everybody in their cubicles and flogged them to produce a Netscape-killer. Turning a billion-dollar company on its heels to stamp out a rising enemy is no small feat, yet he did it. I don’t give a rat’s derriere if he did it by using the monopoly power of the OS to inject IE into the center ring, what impressed me was that he saw it was time to play hardball.
Note that I attribute this commander-in-chief-the-buck-stops-here action to Gates personally and not to the corporate management. I still think that his will alone drove that forced march. Once he won, though, neither he nor MS went on to put the new territory under their realm. Why? Probably because it was kind of like owning Antarctica.