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Do you think they have a chance?
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.
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.
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.
Integrating Video into that is a sweetly sick idea, and could be extremely painful for Google/YouTube.
I wonder who the genius was who decided not to have unique urls appear in the address bar for each video.
Why doesn't Gates hire some competence to develop their products? Or at least some competent beta testers ...
Their mistakes are so very obvious.
i prefer it to youtube, i think it's really well done
and could be extremely painful for Google/YouTube
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.
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 $$$ they have.
dont they *ever* come up with anything original considering the billions of $$$ they have.
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?
dont they *ever* come up with anything original considering the billions of $$$ they have.
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.
you can't count Microsoft out of the race, ever.
with live search, contextual ads and videos MS is somehow in the race, but obviously not that much competitive until now.
