does anyone know abt miccrosoft's live.com.
www.live.com
http://safety.live.com
http://favorites.live.com
http://local.live.com
http://mail.live.com
www.start.com ????
http://ideas.live.com/
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does anyone know abt miccrosoft's live.com.
www.live.com
http://safety.live.com
http://favorites.live.com
http://local.live.com
http://mail.live.com
www.start.com ????
http://ideas.live.com/
Its the "new" microsoft idea. Its basically taking msn, hotmail, and xbox live and a whole bunch of stuff and making them work together. It could work out really well, but knowing microsoft their just going to screw it up by restriciting everything.
The only live service that I am using is Windows Live Messenger...it is really cool. The rest of the services seem ok but google does almost the same thing and I like it better. Start.com isn't an official site. It is basically a play site where they can test stuff.
I really don't want to start this flamewar, but don't .mac accounts basically do something similar, tied to iLife and the OS as a virtual disk?
I dont think so.
live.com is a search engine similar to google
mail.live.com is like GMail
local.live.com is like Google Maps
safety.live.com is a free antivirus/antispyware thingy
favorites.live.com lets you transfer your favorites from 1 computer to another very easily.
Live Messenger is just the new MSN messenger.
I think Office live might be similar to .mac but I am unsure.
Ah, ok. So it's a Yahoo/Google clone. *yawn*
Yep...nothing original at all. Kind of like how Internet Explorer 7 is copying Firefox without the whole being able to view web pages correctly feature. Microsoft does need to get more creative sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by PAlexC
IE's problems stemmed from apathy, not a lack of innovation. Firefox copied Opera, remember? All MS is doing is playing catch-up.
I think MS is actually a very creative company. What holds them back are MBA's and the "lock you in" strategy. Yes, that's right, MS does exactly what Apple does, only at the enterprise level instead of the consumer one. (Ask anyone who uses SQL Server Enterprise or Exchange Server.)
Unfortunately, when the monetary stakes are higher like that, you take less risks. MS in the consumer market was driven by the business market: "work from home" about sums it up.
The whole jumping into the console wars was ballsy, and so was XBox Live. They're very good at learning from their mistakes.
They just bore me is all.
Except Live.com was around way before google.com/ig. Heard it mentioned in an interview with the Live.com developers. Google copied Microsoft. Big ****ing deal.Quote:
Yep...nothing original at all
I like the new Hotmail Live. It's still Beta, so the 'skin' is non-existent. But it's fast, intuitive and user-friendly.
If you already have Messenger Live you can add more Beta services, such as Hotmail Live.
/Flip
Microsoft Office Live is coming.
Today, an online presence is almost a requirement for small business success. That’s why Microsoft is introducing Microsoft® Office Live—a set of affordable business productivity services designed to help you grow your business more easily by establishing a professional presence online.
Microsoft Office Live will provide your company with its own domain name, Web site, and e-mail accounts for free.
Additionally, Microsoft Office Live will offer you and your employees expert business management applications, such as customer, project, and document management tools, and a security-enhanced private Web site—affordably managed and maintained by Microsoft—where you can work together and share information with your employees, customers, suppliers, and contractors.
From www.officelive.com
its all part of the plan to centralize and condense computing. out of curiosity, what is mac doing toward the "living room" market?
Just wondering - are any other developers concerned about Office Live? ( http://officelive.microsoft.com/ ). While it might not impact on mid- to large-scale web-site developers small time operations will surely suffer. Everyone uses Office (apart from about 1% of computer users (or whatever the figure might actually be - don't quote me on it)) - free domain name, free hosting, publish your own web-site from the package you use day in day out...
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The part that I am confused about is the Free Domain name and free hosting. How can Microsoft afford to do that without at least charging something. I think that now days people are going to sign up for the Free level of Office Live just for the free domain name.