Comments on: What do Macy and Microsoft Live Have In Common?

By: Zune

Zune — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:43:58 +0000

It looks as though you were correct when stating that this looks like the semblance of a business model. With the announcement of the Zune portable media player and inevitable Zune Live service it appears Microsoft is taking steps towards shifting business models to a services provider.

http://www.zunemax.com

By: balasundaram ramaswamy

balasundaram ramaswamy — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 05:39:41 +0000

fast second, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0787971545/102-5402101-6066508?v=glance. is also related concept. Microsoft has been able to do the “fast second” to several companies till now. But how successful it would be able to replicate the effect again this time is the question.

For example, Microsoft has had tremendous control over the apis. But will they be ahle to obtain the same level of dominance with their Atlas, AJAX APIs?

Web 2.0 apps would also include lightweight office and collaboration apps. Even if Microsoft does them without tying it their existing offerings as they have announced, Microsoft can at best retain its hotmail and MSN users. We can expect Yahoo and Google will also be able to replicate microsoft’s technology and retain their user base. This would reduce Microsoft from its monopoly position to one of the top 3 position.

By: Phil Leif

Phil Leif — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:03:56 +0000

If you dig a little bit deeper, you’ll find that the major department stores are suffering from challenges similar to those faced by MS. Check out this analysis from A.T. Kearney:

“Department stores are product emporiums filled with too much merchandise. Consumers often see them as having high prices, not being very innovative, and offering mediocre service and product knowledge.”

http://www.atkearney.com/main.taf?p=5,1,1,115,6,1

By: Khabri

Khabri — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:54:26 +0000

Om, Enough of Microsoft. MS has more enemies than friends and if the Webs Big 3 get together with Open Source community and hi-tech companies in the valley, Web 2.0, Web 3.0..Web n.0 will always remain a dream for Microsoft.

By: ahsan

ahsan — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:52:47 +0000

Your analogy of fashion to Web 2.0 babble is brilliant, simple and cuts to the core. Cutting edge and sexy wins the minds of the elite but ends up having minimal impact in the real world. Which is why mashups, Ajax and all this other stuff we’re hearing is going to be the death of MSFT is probably just hype. They’re going to nip a lot of stuff in the bud with their recent initiatives and move to being a little less evil. Looks like the expected dismantling at the hands of GOOG may still be a ways off…

By: Ramana Kovi

Ramana Kovi — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:32:40 +0000

Mac OS is copy of Xerox Desktop. Lotus 1.2.3 is VisiCal copy. Netscape is copy of UIUC mozilla.

Who is copying who ?

By: Ramana Kovi

Ramana Kovi — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:11:14 +0000

There is no product called Microsoft Live. The product names are Office Live and Windows Live. Only web 2.0 features I see in these products are support for RSS ( Then again RSS is a copy of Microsoft CDF format ) and XMLHTTP (AJAX) is as old as IE 4.0 ( Circa 1998). Iam not sure who is copying is who?.

PS I dont work for Microsoft.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:40:56 +0000

How is MSFT’s actions with Live any different from what they have done throughout their history? Shouldn’t Web 2.0 join the list of ‘things Microsoft copied’? Let’s see (in no particular order), Netscape, MacOS (and OSX) and Lotus 1-2-3 and… you get the picture.