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Scoble on Windows Live

November 2, 2005 |

Scoble thinks that yesterday’s announcement was not about Windows Live or Office Live. Instead it is about moving Microsoft from an applications company to a servicies company.

Maybe - I am skeptical they can pull it off gracefully. Microsoft is so heavily invested in its applications, maybe they are not the right company to take the world in this new direction. Let’s see.

Doesn’t all of this remind you of the whole think-client affair with Sun a few years back. Everything was going to be online, in your browser. I guess for companies, that’s the way it went. Lot’s of online applications (often more of a hassle to use than the standalone clients, I might add). Now users are expected to go this way. But with adds next to my word-processor - or while having to pay a subscription fee to use it… I don’t know if this is going to fly. But then, Microsoft managed to sell Windows to the masses, too.

From Scoble:

Yesterday will be remembered not because of what we announced. But because of the direction we’re now headed in.

Microsoft is no longer an applications company. It is a services company.

Don’t get caught up in the badly-pulled-off demos yesterday.

There is something a lot deeper happening inside Microsoft than that.

 
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