Microsoft Live

Microsoft has solidified those plans by announcing the early 2006 beta availability of Windows Live (including e-mail, instant messaging, and antivirus functionality) and Office Live (including e-business applications like T&E and project management as well as website hosting). Microsoft has not yet made its customer relationship management (CRM) product available On Demand, but the upcoming 3.0 edition is widely expected to be available under this model.

Anyone heard about this yet? Microsoft will be offering their entire suite of tools in an online format including hosting services. They're also re-branding MSN messenger into this and dropping the name I believe.

http://www.line56.com/articles/defau...7057&TopicID=6
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...isys-microsoft

I heard about it a few days ago.

I've seen screenshots... and the design doesnt look very microsoft. Actually, it looks more Mac. But hey, thats not what its about.

Yeh I read about this, it's gonmna be awsome. Microsoft are finally going Web 2.0

Well, personally I think this is Microsoft's (somewhat) late response to the Sun Microsystems & Google partnership.

Sun Microsystems has already developed a free office style product called OpenOffice (OpenOffice Website for those who want to take a look). It has been around for a while and has just released version 2.0. Now with them partnering up with Google to improve the product who knows what will happen.

It's good to see Microsoft getting a little more competition and following the trends that are coming up. Despite Mr. Gate's speech to the contrary, I still think Microsoft is going to be a company that is about the money over the service they provide. They have been so big for so long they've gotten the attitude "it's my way or the highway".

We'll see how it goes...

MS is trying to play catch up with Yahoo and Google. I think google has been pushing for web 2.0 for some time now.

We we see hwo this works. For the advanced users like you and I, I think it will work great. But I believe it might end up being a hassle for the average user.

Anyone have info on Web 2.0?

Digital Web Magazine did this article Web 2.0 for Designers

Edit:
I did a quick search and Wikipedia has something on Web 2.0

Originally Posted by JamesYooKay I heard about it a few days ago. I've seen screenshots... and the design doesnt look very microsoft. Actually, it looks more Mac. But hey, thats not what its about.

Can you share these?

And the money shot...

Thanks!