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Microsoft: Facebook Home Is a Copycat, Windows Phone Is the 'Real Thing'

Posted by Unknown on from the our-interface-sucked-first dept.

colinneagle writes "Frank X. Shaw, VP of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, did not seem happy about Facebook's Home announcement when he wrote, 'I tuned into the coverage of the Facebook Home event yesterday and actually had to check my calendar a few times. Not to see if it was still April Fools Day, but to see if it was somehow still 2011. Because the content of the presentation was remarkably similar to the launch event we did for Windows Phone two years ago.' Shaw also posted Microsoft's 'Put people first with Windows Phone 7.5' video before writing, 'We understand why Facebook would want to find a way to bring similar functionality to a platform that is sadly lacking it.'"

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  1. Children, children... by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's no need to fight, you BOTH suck.

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    1. Re:Children, children... by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      Indeed. This seems more like a battle for a hill so small neither can stand on it.

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    2. Re:Children, children... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      King of the shrill?

    3. Re:Children, children... by roc97007 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Regarding facebook games... This has turned into the primary reason the stove timer is backed up by the smoke alarm.

      beep... beep... beep... beep... beep...

      BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

      "Sounds like dinner's ready."

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    4. Re:Children, children... by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Microsoft is successful because of their product managers who do a good job responding to customer requests. Their customers of course, are businesses, not consumers.

      So explain Windows 8.

      Which business customers were demanding a touch-screen tablet UI on their desktop PCs?

  2. Which launch event? by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

    This one?

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  3. Hum?! Am I missing something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Both suck, but saying that facebook copied windows phone is like saying a lawnmower is a F1 sports car!

    1. Re:Hum?! Am I missing something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Are you a lawyer for apple?

  4. Microsoft v Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoever loses, we win.

    1. Re:Microsoft v Facebook by c · · Score: 3, Funny

      Whoever loses, we win.

      The only way it could get better would be for the two of them to partner up and build a Facebook Windows Phone. Called the "Kinzune".

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  5. Re:Dear Microsoft ... by chipschap · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yup, Microsoft is taking it in the chin on the washing machine front :)