rogerd
msg:3255144 | 2:18 am on Feb 17, 2007 (gmt 0) |
MS has always been good at being a "fast follower", but knocking off YouTube is a tall order. Do you think they have a chance?
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night707
msg:3255266 | 7:07 am on Feb 17, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Despite all bugs, their site does not look too bad at all. But the overall image of MS products is like those of a loser when looking at live search or windows media player. Google search, real video, flash video etc. are all doing ok. Also with ad networks MS is again lightyears behind. In a way it looks like MS is having a huge management problem when considering the amount of cash available and the overall failure of their product concepts. Now the huge and mad size of vista will be doing further damage so that i can not imagine them becoming competitive with any of their services at all.
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walkman
msg:3255291 | 8:07 am on Feb 17, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I hate the small windows with scroll bars.
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rj87uk
msg:3255613 | 6:25 pm on Feb 17, 2007 (gmt 0) |
First it broke my firefox twice. Second, the video's don't show in my firefox unless you switch to full video mode. Very rubbish, Very limited and for Microsoft its very rubbish.
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Trax
msg:3255631 | 6:57 pm on Feb 17, 2007 (gmt 0) |
i aint seeing the next youtube when going to that page
bad attempt MS
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blend27
msg:3255712 | 8:50 pm on Feb 17, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I just watched "Spiders on Drugs", pretty funny video
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skipfactor
msg:3255734 | 10:01 pm on Feb 17, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Yet another MS site that's broken in FF. By design or not, it's pathetic.
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walkman
msg:3255748 | 11:09 pm on Feb 17, 2007 (gmt 0) |
>> Yet another MS site that's broken in FF. By design or not, it's pathetic. I agree it's pathetic, especially when there's a way to do it without compromising features. I'd vote for design. I also question the "Everything under one umbrella strategy," buy a nice domain and lauch video on it's own, not myblog.spaces.live.com just doesn't do it.
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amznVibe
msg:3255811 | 1:23 am on Feb 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Too bad in my firefox config, clicking on anything doesn't do anything.
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travelin cat
msg:3255812 | 1:29 am on Feb 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
What was the last original MS product? Certainly not this...
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Decius
msg:3255872 | 2:58 am on Feb 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Regardless, they own MSN, which owns over 60% of the worldwide IM business. Integrating Video into that is a sweetly sick idea, and could be extremely painful for Google/YouTube.
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Robert Charlton
msg:3255934 | 6:42 am on Feb 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I wonder who the genius was who decided not to have unique urls appear in the address bar for each video.
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night707
msg:3255954 | 8:43 am on Feb 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| I wonder who the genius was who decided not to have unique urls appear in the address bar for each video. |
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Why doesn't Gates hire some competence to develop their products? Or at least some competent beta testers ... Their mistakes are so very obvious.
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jamie
msg:3255956 | 8:50 am on Feb 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
my firefox is fine - bog standard 2.0.0.1 install and i love the fact that i don't have to reload and scroll down for each video. i prefer it to youtube, i think it's really well done
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rj87uk
msg:3256663 | 9:09 am on Feb 19, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| and could be extremely painful for Google/YouTube |
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I don't think so, your looking for a video or your bored and looking for something to do, so you go to youtube. To me Microsoft is just a company who makes windows, lol nothing more.
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ubuntuguy
msg:3256763 | 12:42 pm on Feb 19, 2007 (gmt 0) |
minuses:
1. video on the right hand side - it should be on the left
2. url doesnt change when you pick a video pluses:
1. love the tabs under the video - comments etc. clicking them doesnt force a reload of the whole page. but as per usual , its Microsoft following where everyone else has blazed a trail - dont they *ever* come up with anything original considering the billions of $$$ they have.
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night707
msg:3256859 | 2:54 pm on Feb 19, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| dont they *ever* come up with anything original considering the billions of $$$ they have. |
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install Vista :-) inside this couple of GB sized package might be something new. Otherwise I'd like to point at developments such as brightcove.com etc. which are also way ahead of MS so that not only youtube will prevent Gates and Co. from success despite all their billions. Who does see a real concept behind this MS video venture?
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dakuma
msg:3257494 | 4:53 am on Feb 20, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I can't get enough of Google Video, I'm a documentary nut so I love the ability to download the vids for my PSP. However, I'll bet soapbox.msn.com cost Microsoft a tad less than Google paid for YouTube. I wonder how much original content they could buy with the savings. As has been said many times over, you can't count Microsoft out of the race, ever.
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Visit Thailand
msg:3257500 | 5:03 am on Feb 20, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| dont they *ever* come up with anything original considering the billions of $$$ they have. |
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A bit harsh considering they came out with the world's most widely used operating system, and office suite. I love video and will be checking out this new system. I do not see any reports of problems in IE7 so I should be fine.
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night707
msg:3257547 | 7:16 am on Feb 20, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| you can't count Microsoft out of the race, ever. |
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with live search, contextual ads and videos MS is somehow in the race, but obviously not that much competitive until now.
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