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-serviceâ€? 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.

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.