Comments on: Windows Live services going dead

By: Taimur Asad

Taimur Asad — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:24:22 +0000

Emotional? Why would i get emotional? Do i work for MS? Do I own MS?
NO.

I will maintain that killing of some of the Live services is good for Live and I called it a reorganization of Windows Live\MSN because MS has messed up their web part by dividing it into two brands.. plus after talks with Yahoo about a possible merger of online services failed, MS thought it was better to reorganize their online world by killing off unnecessary services which had too less a users and were not worth hosting it anymore. Its better to try then not to try thinking it would fail.

” Microsoft’s “Me-too-in-every-service�? attitude. ”
.. the result of this attitude is Live Writer, Live Mesh.. ^o)

Ofcoarse not all services can become a instant hit or even a hit for that matter. But its always better to try then not to..

“Plus, they announced it after almost a year of inactivity, certainly means that there are a lot of issues with Windows Live management and they have a lot to learn.”

a year of inactivity? was the product even released? to the best of my knowledge the product was only released to a selected pool of private testers which were under NDA. So i wont blame them for announcing it to the public this late as public was never supposed to get hands on it in the first place. but yes i agree thats its a shame that such a promising service never saw the light of day.

By: Imran Hussain

Imran Hussain — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:08:28 +0000

No need to get emotional Taimur, he no where said Windows Live is dying, it says Windows Live Services are going dead.

And this post might be useless to you but not to rest of the world.
Every one has a different analysis and it’s good to some all that up in one post about the phase different Windows Live services are going through.

plus Dead services != reorganization, it means those services either failed/were useless/or not thought well enough.

Live Search Books and Academic surely has made Google victorious in that field of competition, period. That’s no reorganization. It was Microsoft’s “Me-too-in-every-service” attitude.

And for Windows Live for TV, they totally ruined a very useful feature most people looked forward too, so unless they really integrate it in Fiji ( as per rumors ), I wouldn’t find this to be a good step from Windows Live.

Plus, they announced it after almost a year of inactivity, certainly means that there are a lot of issues with Windows Live management and they have a lot to learn.

By: Shoaib Hashmi

Shoaib Hashmi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:44:13 +0000

I summed up the services and gave my analysis on it so its not a useless post at all and I didn’t say that Windows Live is going dead, it would be a foolish thing to say. I’ve discussed services only, do read it again.

By: Taimur Asad

Taimur Asad — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:23:10 +0000

Pretty useless post to me. Much of this has already been covered in many posts earlier this month.
and yes one more thing.. Shutting down of couple of services doesnt mean Windows Live is going dead.. it more means tht its getting reorganized.