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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Near Indianapolis
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So Microsoft unveiled "Windows Live", their attempt to tap into the markets they haven't touched yet (mainly users of Macs and Linux), this afternoon. However, it doesn't work with Firefox. Unsurprising as it is, I find it rather humorous that Microsoft is trying to create this web portal to compete with Google, but it doesn't work with the #2 web browser (which is #1 on Linux). Not a surprise at all, but very, very stupid, IMO. See their new stuff here: Live.com
[edit] I just noticed something. Their page says it doesn't support firefox, but most of the features work. Maybe it'll be like their other bastardized web pages that only half work. Last edited by Wyatt : 2005-11-01 at 16:28. |
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Iowa
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Is it just me, or did Microsoft pull a ... well , Microsoft again and almost completely rip off google on that one?
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: New York City
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uuhhh customizable portals have been around since like 1995
microsoft didn't rip anything off google... (in this case*) *and they both may well have ripped it off some other company like netscape or yahoo ten years ago 1215/234215 (top .51875%) People really have got to stop thinking there is only one operating system, one economic system, one religion, and one business model. -EvilTwinSkippy (/.) |
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rams it
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Seattle
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What features? All I see is a search bar.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Portugal
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http://ga.rgoyle.com
Join Date: May 2004
Location: In your dock hiding behind your finder icon!
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I think someone is pulling your leg!
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Register.com
Jack Spurr
62 Rcom Drive .
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B1
CA
Email: admin@internationaladmin.com
Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com
Domain Name: live.com
Created on..............: Wed, Dec 28, 1994
Expires on..............: Wed, Dec 27, 2006
Record last updated on..: Mon, Oct 31, 2005
Administrative Contact:
Register.com
Jack Spurr
62 Rcom Drive .
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B1
CA
Phone: +1.9027492792
Email: admin@internationaladmin.com
Technical Contact:
Register.com
Jack Spurr
62 Rcom Drive .
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B1
CA
Phone: +1.9027492792
Email: admin@internationaladmin.com
DNS Servers:
ns3.msft.net
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ns1.msft.net
ns2.msft.net
ns5.msft.net |
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Going Strange...
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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I don't think so...check it out. And here too.
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Join Date: May 2004
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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That's all you see because it's horribly broken in Safari.
It only fully "works" with Internet Explorer 6+ on Windows. |
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25 chars of wasted space.
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Can't say if it's a better search engine or not, I doubt it, but if you do a search, it basically is copying googles setup. But what do you know, MSN's is harder to read IMHO, but there are also more ads.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Clayton, NC
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On my Windows machine here at work (where I expected it to work right off), I get:
Firefox Users Firefox support is coming soon. Please be patient :-) The happy face makes me happy. Ugh. |
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"Windows Dead"
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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All their Live stuff is targeted at Windows users as far as I can see. - No matter where you go, there you are. |
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http://ga.rgoyle.com
Join Date: May 2004
Location: In your dock hiding behind your finder icon!
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Don't worry your not missing out! It's not big and it's not clever!
For example. The NEW live email system, is simply a list of your latest hotmail messages on a nice clean screen. When you actually click one to read it, guess where you end up? Yep, that's right, slap bang into standard MSN/hotmail system - all those crappy bevels and adverts - yeah thanks for the great "new" product MS! OK, I have given up keeping this sig up to date. Lets just say I'm the guy that installs every latest version as soon as its available! |
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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^In other words cluttered and awkward as always.
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reticulating your mom
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Windows Live?
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Fishhead Family Reunited
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Slightly Off Center
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I like how someone at Information Week put it:
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
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Well. It might have a positive side effect. Apple could be persuaded to offer .mac for free as a competitive counter-measure
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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The Register ran a story under the sub heading ".NET done - now let's get Google". Now Microsoft have decided they've conquered/got fed up with XML and web services they need a new target.
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