Memo Outlines Microsoft's Plans

conq wrote to mention a BusinessWeek article that covers some of Microsoft's upcoming web plans. From the article: "Live.com, Microsoft's customizable search-oriented portal, has more than 3 million users and the second-highest Net Promoter score -- a metric showing how many users would recommend the site to others -- of all MSN.com properties, writes Cole. That's good news, since the Live.com portal is the entry point for the first release of its Windows Live Search, the site through which Microsoft hopes to make the big bucks through paid search. Microsoft on Mar. 8 unveiled a slew of features aimed at letting users personalize the way they search the Web."

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Re:Live.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft bought the internet, remember? You can visit their new site at http://http/

Paid search?

[Anonymous Coward]

Excuse my ignorance, but paid for by whom? Is that why a picture search for "titties" is blocked by live.com? People going to have to pay to get the good stuff?

Re:Deja-Vu

[dingen]

You mean the "beta"-tag under the logo?

paid search?

[spiritraveller]

That's good news, since the Live.com portal is the entry point for the first release of its Windows Live Search, the site through which Microsoft hopes to make the big bucks through paid search.

This is a joke right?

the clue is in the techno marketing babel

[rs232]

"Make no mistake, Windows Live is our strategic bet to change the game and win .."

translation: We can't win on technology so we are going to change the rules.

'Windows Live Local search.. "is surpassing our competition with industry-leading technology"'

translation: We produce industry-leading technology despite the fact that we are playing catchup with Google and our sucessive desktop product adds little to the user experience.

"Over the next 3-6 months, we'll ship more innovative technology into the marketplace than during our entire 10-year history,"

translation: We actually shipped innovative technology in the past ten years. At least we'de like to pollute the record with this wish-fulfillment fantasy.

"I know we've spent the last few years coming from behind, but we've truly turned a huge corner," Cole says. "

I thought that corners only came in obtuse and acute angles. How can you logically be coming from behind while turning a huge corner. Why is a marketing blurb worthy of mention on slashdot?

Re:How Microsoft does everything

[heson]

Yur first step is hiding the details, its:
1. Steal - ehm, I mean Embrace - someone elses idea, sculpt a clone in dog crap.

Live.com

[pherthyl]

Live.com, Microsoft's customizable search-oriented portal, has more than 3 million users and the second-highest Net Promoter score -- a metric showing how many users would recommend the site to others -- of all MSN.com properties

Are these 3 million users all high? Maybe I'm on some phenomenally poorly connected part of the internet, but I haven't even gotten live.com to complete a search successfully. Aside from that, most of the widgets on the main page don't load, and the one image search that worked only had 3 results.
The page looks like crap on Opera (actually, it doesn't work at all as I just noticed), and behaves badly on just about every other browser (haven't tried IE). It loads slowly, and uses crappy non-standard interface elements to boot (that scrollbar! what the heck were they thinking?)

Re:Poorly disguised shill.

[RobertLTux]

may i point out an exception to that "rule" The SCO Group would love to send a terminator back to remove Pamela Jones before she started groklaw.net Top Ten signs your court cases are going badly 10 you have a blog posting every (public) detail of the case 09 this includes all of your FTC filings 08 you have hacked off two judges 07 and they are talking with each other 06 the guy that cowrote the book on the language says you have no case 05 the guy you payed says you have no case 04 the guy from 6 also worked on writing the OS you are talking about 03 you are fighting IBM (and they are in a Evil Bad and Wrong mood) 02 you are fighting Novell (and they want to Ebay your offices) 01 Bills PIPE fairy just went on vacation adn you are running out of money