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Windows Live: The 50,000-Foot View | |
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| Time: 07:55 EST/12:55 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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Q&A: Microsoft has been rolling out Windows Live services in a breakneck and seemingly haphazard way. Is there a method to Redmond's services madness? Windows Live Platform Group head Blake Irving says yes. When it comes to Windows Live, there are a lot more questions than there are answers (at least public ones). | ||
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| #1 By 17996 (66.235.19.95) at 4/29/2006 6:21:54 PM |
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There's a real danger that they're going down the same path they did with .NET branding a few years ago. Nearly every new product, whether it had to do with .NET or not, was given the .NET moniker.
Now, Windows Live. The various services have NOTHING to do with Windows. They don't even "tie in" to Windows. Case in point: Windows Live Mail. You would think that Vista's Windows Mail would be able to connect to it? Nope. They've gone and created an all-new e-mail client (Windows Live Mail Desktop) that you would need to use. Where's the integration?! But here's what I suspect the reason is: Antitrust. If they were to enable Windows Mail to connect to Windows Live Mail, they'd have to enable it to connect to all competing web-based email systems (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.). So, to avoid illegal bundling/monopoly abuse charges, they had to make WLMD completely independent of Windows. (WLMD is developed by the Outlook Express/Windows Mail team, and is based on essentially the same code base.) Same thing for Windows Live Messenger. Regular "Windows Messenger" is gone in Vista, so there will be no bundled IM out-of-the-box. (South Korea's antitrust case against Microsoft is responsible for this one.) In the end, I don't like the way Windows Live is going. There's no integration; it's an unnecessary rebranding of MSN products and services. |
| #2 By 12071 (203.206.253.53) at 4/30/2006 6:24:29 AM |
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#1 "they'd have to enable it to connect to all competing web-based email systems" OR they could open up the API in the same way that Google does for instance (http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/index.html) and not have to worry about any of the concerns you pointed out. However, interoperability doesn't appear to be one of their key strengths.
But I agree with you that if they don't get a handle on the whole "Live" thing then they're going to end up confusing their customers like they did with .Net. What's interesting out of all of this is that Microsoft appear to be taking an active role in the web 2.0 (even though I personally don't like that term) space. Perhaps they see Google and others as competitors or perhaps they're just hedging their bets in case in the near future the majority of the focus is taken away from the desktop and onto the web (i.e. majority of applications being web-based or web-delivered in which case the OS will be irrelevant for the most part). I'm leaning towards them hedging their bets :) |
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