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Re: Microsoft's Live.com

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft's Live.com
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:53:07 +0000
  • Newsgroups: alt.www.webmaster
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [ Who Turned Off The Lights? ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 04:37 \__

> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:20:10 -0500, MGW wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:11:59 GMT, Who Turned Off The Lights?
>> <Lights@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scrawled:
>> 
>>> Anybody have a look yet at Microsoft's Live.com ???
>>> 
>>> Any opinions?
>>> 
>>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6046584.html
>> 
>> Will it work in Firefox and Opera?
> 
> on my end it actually worked smoother and faster on Firefox. As for Opera?
> That's a negative.
> 
> As much as I'd hate to admit it. I think it sucks the way it looks and
> feels at the moment. 'and yet MS made it sound like the 'second coming'.
> :-(

They will make Vista seem pretty much like the 'second coming' too:

,----[ Snippet ]
| Block noted that there is a team at the company's Redmond, Wash.,
| headquarters focused entirely on generating buzz for the OS, planning
| such things as having a Vista PC make Oprah Winfrey's influential
| "favorite things" list.
| 
| "Can we get a cool new PC in front of Oprah?" Block asked. "Can we
| do stuff like that? I think we can." 
`----

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6047217.html?part=rss&tag=6047217&subj=news

More on the issue of made up hype:

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/03/08/microsoft-lies/

Posted this morning.



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