Microsoft's Secret Plan Revealed: Copy Facebook
MSN, MSN Live, Windows Live or whatever Microsoft calls its consumer-facing online services these days will soon begin to roll out features similar to those you'll find on Facebook, Brian Hall, general manager of Microsoft's Windows Live (ah hah.) business told the Wall Street Journal:
Among the changes are new features that closely resemble features on Facebook, the popular social-networking site, that make it easier for users to keep tabs on the activities of friends on the Internet.
Microsoft will make it easier than it has in the past for users to maintain a single list of online friends, from which they can address emails, send instant messages and view activity updates through the new Facebook-like "feed" feature that shows, for example, new photos that friends have posted online and short messages they've broadcast through Twitter.
Guess a $240 million investment at $15 billion valuation in a $4 billion company ought to get you something.
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Microsoft Live and Cloud services are about as far from the basics of facebook as you could imagine.
Facebook for example works with the MS Live and cloud services, and MS is not trying to reinvent facebook in anyway.
If you would like a real tech reporter, I have a few hours I could spare...
Geesh.
I love Google and believe they have and will continue to dominate web advertising. I have an iPod and while its a cute device, Apple business products for real world applications? Please.
At the end of the day, my business and my competitors' business applications entirely run on Microsoft products. The same can be said for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of other corporations can say the same thing.
There's no question in the last 5 years Microsoft has stagnated at coming through with truly innovative products. However, after Bill Gates stepped down, you can see new leaders emerging.
If you have no faith in a visionary like Ray Ozzie or in someone like "Dr. Flakenstein," you truly have gulped the anti-Microsoft Kool Aid one time too many.
>make crap up because they don't get technology?
ding ding ding. most of these articles are an imbecile's spin of a press release. say what you will about the national enquirer, but at least they have real reporters who do leg work. unlike these guys, who sit around and 'react' with uninformed dribble like this.
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