Windows Live Confusion - One Year On
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| I think Windows Live is a good enough brand, signifying Microsoft's
| set of Internet-connected software and services. But right now the
| name is being applied inconsistently and is also leading to unwieldy
| brand names (Windows Live for Windows Mobile being the latest example).
| In the final analysis, that old Web app adage applies: keep it simple!
| Both with product names and the overall message, that Live =
| Internet-connected.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/windows_live_confusion_2007.php
Fire & Motion: The Trouble with Competing with Google
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| This is often the dilemma when competing with Google. On the one hand,
| you have customers who rightly point out that Google is more generous
| but on the other the fact is that it costs us a whole lot more to do
| the things Google does since we have a whole lot more users than they
| do. The cool things about this is that it forces to be very
| imaginative about how we are competitive in the market place
| and challenges are always fun.
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http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=a813b828-de4e-4ebd-ad66-6ce78cfd0f3d
Google E-Mail Service Ready for All
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| Both Yahoo and Microsoft were giving away less than 10 megabytes of
| e-mail storage when Gmail launched.
|
| "We have already made e-mail better for everyone in the world,"
| Google's Coleman boasted.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070214/google_mail.html?.v=2
Google Boosts Its GPA
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| Google, last year we gave you a C+. This year we're giving you a B-.
| But you can do better. You're the brainiac, overachieving engineers
| and honor students we competed with in high school. The kind of
| people who would post a report card like this on your wall and
| endeavor to do better next year. Good luck.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/13/google-grade-youtube-tech-ebiz-cx_rr_0213googlegrade.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2beu4b
Related:
Microsoft Office Live migration is adding insult to injury
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| On January 29, Microsoft posted to the Office Live blog a status update
| re: the migration. The news isn't good.
|
| Office Live logoBeta testers are still potentially "months" away fromb
| eing migrated to the final version of their Office Live services.
| Functionality like backup and restore isn't going to work until
| their accounts are migrated. And Microsoft will give testers only
| a 24-hour heads-up when they are set to be migrated. During that
| 24-hour period, users won't be able to make changes to their
| Office Live sites.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=243
Office Live: Better Off Dead?
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| Last month I killed Office Live in an act of self defense, after
| repeated access problems and attempts to move my domain to another
| registrar. Judging from the comments to that post, there's an Office
| Live killing spree going on. Not surprisingly, Microsoft wants to put
| an end to the wanton killing.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/office_live_better_off_dead.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ybsz2o
An open letter to Bill Gates
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| Dear Bill Gates
|
| Give me back my weekend. I bought a new Windows Vista laptop -- and
| that's when the trouble began.
|
| [...]
|
| But what really grates is that your system is incompatible with two
| of the vital tools of my trade. Vista refuses to load the software
| for my newish Olympus digital recorder. And here?s what takes the
| biscuit. Vista rejects my HP IPAQ handheld device ? even though the
| software for that was created by Microsoft!
|
| So in order to put Vista at the centre of what I do, I would have to
| buy hundreds of pounds of new hardware.
|
| [...]
|
| My conclusion? For all the expensive and much-extended gestation,
| Vista was not ready for commercial release. And, just so you know,
| I've never once had a comparably horrible experience with the
| Google boys.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/02/an_open_letter_to_bill_gates.html
http://tinyurl.com/2tlc8w
Microsoft vs. Google in Office Software: What's The End Game?
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| Simply put, Google is a fly on the elephant that is Microsoft
| right now. But all Google has to do is make Microsoft defend the
| Office business. If Microsoft has to respond to Google Docs-it
| doesn't yet-the software giant won't be able to focus on search and
| keyword advertising. Even a company with Microsoft's cash pile
| has limited resources.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070205/26102_id.html?.v=1
Microsoft profit on slide
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| Some analysts are looking for any signs of improvement from
| Microsoft's internet division, which continues to lose market
| share in web search to Google.
|
| Microsoft's online services group saw revenue fall for the last
| four quarters and posted a loss in the past three quarters while
| it shifted to a new internet advertising platform and overhauled
| the company's web properties.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21109542%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing
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| To paraphrase an old comment about IBM, made during its 30 year
| dominance of the enterprise mainframe market, Google is not your
| competition, Google is the environment. Online businesses which
| struggle against this new reality will pay opportunity costs both
| in online advertising revenue as well as product success.
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http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_t.html
Google 'looking to buy' Microsoft Office clone
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| Google is hoping to launch an office software suite that mimics
| Microsoft Office, according to the developer of the software.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2170714/google-wants-office-suite
Will Berkowitz keep Windows Live?
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| At the risk of moving this article over to the opinion blog, many
| of the problems Berkowitz faces were caused not by too much focus
| on technical wizardry, but by a lack of clear direction, both fo
| MSN and for Windows Live.
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http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2006/12/10/ny-times-will-berkowitz-keep-windows-live.aspx
Sources: Several Windows Live Projects Halted
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| Microsoft's Windows Live desktop search project has been
| shelved "indefinitely," although not much reasoning has been
| given as to the reason for its demise.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Sources_Several_Windows_Live_Projects_Halted/1163715423
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