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- Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?
- Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?So why the deemphasizing of Live Spaces?I find that strange that the Windows Live Team is not updating Spaces for Wave 3. Right now, the service is suffering from a number of issues: commentary spam, performance and the fact that...
- Tags: Operating systems, start-page, Microsoft Corp., strategy, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Wave, simpler consumer services strategy, consumer services strategy, Windows Live Wave 3
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- What comes after S S? A truly unified client-cloud platform
- What comes after S S? A truly unified client-cloud platformThe Internet is the DataApple and even Google are proving that rich client and cloud are the natural mix. iTunes is a rich client application that talks HTTP to get XML data back to populate the iTunes store. Google's Picasa use...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, HTTP, rich client, Google Picasa, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Insert Video Plugin for Windows Live Writer 3.1.3.2 (Windows)
- Windows Live Writer is a easy-to-use software that will make it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service. The Insert Video Plugin for Windows Live Writer was designed to let you insert a video from MSN SoapBox, Google Video, YouTube, MySpace Video,...
- Tags: Blog, Microsoft Windows Live, Video, Microsoft Windows Live Writer, Plug-in, ScottIsAFool, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-01-22
- Soapbox Video Gadget 1 (Windows)
- Soapbox Video Gadget is a gadget that will show on your desktop or Vista Sidebar the desired MSN videos. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Gadget, Quartz, Soapbox Video Gadget, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- Windows Live Apps
- The Windows Live apps package is a free download of six tools that manage e-mail accounts, chatting, blogging, photos, and parental controls for children surfing the Web. This download includes Windows Live Mail, Messenger, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar, and OneCare Family Safety. Rather than serving as a portal to and...
- Tags: Operating systems, E-mail providers, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, e-mail, photograph
- Product reviews 2007-11-12
- News to know: Oracle vs. SAP; YouTube battle; Crowdsourcing
- Notable headlines:Motion-sensing comes to mobile phones. Gallery right.Larry Dignan: Oracle sues SAP; alleges ‘corporate theft on a grand scale." Full complaint. Joshua Greenbaum: The Lawsuit As Barometer: SAP Finally Scores Big with TomorrowNow.NBC, News Corp. push new Web rival to YouTube. NewTube: Will video content really be king? MSN Soapbox:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), YouTube Inc., crowdsourcing, SAP AG, Microsoft Windows Vista, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- 'NewTube': Will video content really be king?
- Nearly every company not named Google--News Corp., NBC, Yahoo, MSN and MySpace--has aligned on a new video venture that will be an alleged YouTube killer. A few months after this joint venture launches well find out if content is really king. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, NBC Universal Inc., NewTube, video
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- MSN Soapbox: No longer going it alone against YouTube
- It always felt wrong to me to call the fledgling Soapbox on MSN Video a "YouTube killer." As of March 22 -- with NBC, News Corp., MSN, Yahoo, AOL and MySpace all aligning to try to take on Googles YouTube -- it feels a tad better to...
- Tags: Intellectual property, video, MSN, SoapBox, MSN Video, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Windows Live: Don't expect of much of a splash at CES
- Is 2007 finally going to be the year Windows Live gets more airplay? If so, it doesnt seem like there will be much of a concerted Live presence at the Consumer Electronics Show CES next week. Sounds like the Soapbox on MSN Video aka Microsofts YouTube alternative team will be...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics Show
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN
- Until recently, when Microsoft execs have touted online services as key to the future of Microsoft, theyve almost always meant Microsofts "Live" services. But recently, Ive started to notice Microsoft re-emphasizing the strategic importance of its MSN.com portal to its overall business. Earlier this fall, to...
- Tags: Steve Berkowitz, Microsofts, Microsoft Corp., Xbox, Corporate strategy, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Once more (with feeling): What is Windows Live?
- Once more with feeling: What is Windows Live?misleading ....their name itself is misleading and confusing. their services are ok and not attractive anymore.The struggle continues...That didn't clear anything up.Explain marketing hype???Come on, "Live" is market speak, nothing more. Is *Live* messenger any different than plain old messenger? Nope,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Web browser, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Where's Microsoft's 'Flash killer'?
- Anyone out there still remember Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/e), Microsofts so-called Flash killer? Last time Microsoft discussed the WPF/e technology publicly was in March, at the Mix 06 conference. (I hear there was a demo of WPF/e as part of the MSN Soapbox demo at the recent Streaming...
- Tags: Development tools, Internet Explorer, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Microsoft earns a mixed report card for its year-old Live initiative
- A year ago this week, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie shot the first salvo in Microsoft’s latest campaign to secure its place in the services world. Entitled “The Internet Services Disruption,” the October 28, 2005, memo from Ozzie to the top Microsoft brass outlined some of Ozzie’s ideas for...
- Tags: Live, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- YouTube Wannabes: online video market post GooTube
- Now that YouTube has been acquired for $1.65B by the hottest technology company on the planet, inevitably it will give rise to a whole new generation of online video products. To paraphrase the Eminem song Without Me: "Hey, theres a concept that works! 20 million other YouTubes emerge..." In this...
- Tags: online video, video
- Blog posts 2006-10-15
- ‘Nemo’: Another Microsoft mashup in the making
- Another day, another mashup. Isn’t Microsoft’s “Nemo” – an as-yet-unannounced Windows Live service uncovered this week by the sleuths over at LiveSide.Net --just more of the same? I think Nemo’s a lot more interesting than your average conglomeration of an online map and a search engine. And here’s why:...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- Soapbox (beta)
- Microsoft's competitor to YouTube is Soapbox on MSN Video. Soapbox is Microsoft's user-generated video site, not to be confused with the company's professional video site, MSN Video. It's a solid video-sharing platform, but its features alone are likely not enough to win over a legion of YouTube users. We...
- Tags: SoapBox, video
- Product reviews 2006-09-21
- IE7 gets closer to its official debut
- IE7 gets closer to its official debutFinding IE add-onsGo to softpedia.com, advanced search so that you can mark searching within the description and look for "internet explorer". Just about any specific function you decide you want will be available, probably from many sources, not all of them on softpedia.The...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2006-06-29
- Microsoft, Google duke it out for China
- Microsoft, Google duke it out for ChinaCapitalistic greed versus ethicsIt will be interesting to see just how far Microsoft and Google and Yahoo will be prepared to go in assisting the Chinese government to suppress free speech and human rights, in order to make money. American MSN users subject to...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Communist, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Chinese Government, rep
- Discussion threads 2005-07-21
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