Arrington, at TechCrunch, likes the MSFT gadgets the best

November 1, 2005 By

Arrington just posted his review of the Microsoft news today. He was most excited by the gadgets. That’s what gets me too!

A few weeks back I interviewed the team that was doing the gadgets. That really is a significant part of the Live announcement that was made today. Imagine tons of gadgets that do interesting things. You can put them on your desktop. Or on Live.com. Or on your sidebar.

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  • DaemonB

    If live.com can start putting out some useful gadgets that are more like sharepoint, then it will be benificial. Otherwise, nobody really cares how colourful the weather gadget is.

  • DaemonB

    If live.com can start putting out some useful gadgets that are more like sharepoint, then it will be benificial. Otherwise, nobody really cares how colourful the weather gadget is.

  • Jake

    Pedro – I hear you. Fortunately my browser and Keychain do a good job at managing some of that complexity.

  • Jake

    Pedro – I hear you. Fortunately my browser and Keychain do a good job at managing some of that complexity.

  • Jake

    Dave – are you saying that the only platform that this stuff runs on is Powerpoint?

    Vaporware? Overhang? Trial balloon? What is this software?

  • Jake

    Dave – are you saying that the only platform that this stuff runs on is Powerpoint?

    Vaporware? Overhang? Trial balloon? What is this software?

  • Ricky Randum

    Comments from ‘detractors’ like Goebbels and Coulter make me suspicious that this whole comments section is liberally peppered with fake contributions.

    Have you noticed how their criticisms are so ‘conveniently grist to Scoble’s mill’ (in helping him beat up MS over things he wants to change)?

    You’ve got to admire their true author’s ingenuity, because nobody reading them would ever say “wow! that is exactly the way would Scoble would write it”, because of their ‘scathing’ personal criticism of Scoble himself.

    But when you read their messages, it becomes clear that this is the writing of professionals, so it becomes rather suspicious that they seem to have sufficient time available for reading Scoble’s every word and also for being amongst the first to respond.

    Or do you think that Coulter and Goebbels’ comments are too bitter and ‘near the mark’ to be anything but what they seem?

  • Ricky Randum

    Comments from ‘detractors’ like Goebbels and Coulter make me suspicious that this whole comments section is liberally peppered with fake contributions.

    Have you noticed how their criticisms are so ‘conveniently grist to Scoble’s mill’ (in helping him beat up MS over things he wants to change)?

    You’ve got to admire their true author’s ingenuity, because nobody reading them would ever say “wow! that is exactly the way would Scoble would write it”, because of their ‘scathing’ personal criticism of Scoble himself.

    But when you read their messages, it becomes clear that this is the writing of professionals, so it becomes rather suspicious that they seem to have sufficient time available for reading Scoble’s every word and also for being amongst the first to respond.

    Or do you think that Coulter and Goebbels’ comments are too bitter and ‘near the mark’ to be anything but what they seem?

  • http://www.getvendors.com/ getvendors

    Ricky..I agree blog entry comments which are not written in casual mood are always with some ulterior motive..but nice things about blogs is you can quickly scroll down immediately you see someone putting “extra effort” because then they are not really in the main discussion..

    Anyway..i think it was “start” now it is “live” and soon it will become “archive”

  • http://www.getvendors.com getvendors

    Ricky..I agree blog entry comments which are not written in casual mood are always with some ulterior motive..but nice things about blogs is you can quickly scroll down immediately you see someone putting “extra effort” because then they are not really in the main discussion..

    Anyway..i think it was “start” now it is “live” and soon it will become “archive”

  • Dave

    “Dave – are you saying that the only platform that this stuff runs on is Powerpoint?”

    Well, if I have to explain the shortcomings of how this “major” public unveiling of (a) a confusing product line that (b) runs only on MSIE while (c) not doing anything new and (d) has as it’s biggest feature a signup list for (e) that unknown day in the future it will actually be something concrete….

    Reread my comments – in this post and others.

    (1) The only tangible(?) outcome from PDC ’03 was hype. Those fabled pillars? Some are finally in beta of one form or another – 18 months after the fact.

    (2) Whidbey was 12 months late in release. Yukon just about the same. Longhorn/Vista… 18 months and counting, with nearly a complete overhaul of features.

    (3) With the exception of XBox, Microsoft has been very underwhelming with true product releases since 2001. Too bad they overcompensated for that with overblown hype.

    (4) Two quotes from Robert:

    “Alfredo: because the developers are working to get things done very quickly and are then going to work on making it work with other browsers.”

    “Scott Hanselman, one of our best customers, is confused by Windows Live.”

    Along with one from a commentor:

    “And someone tell Matt that a splash screen is NOT having it ‘out there in the world for real.’”

    Along with what this, um, software itself says if you try to view it in anything but MSIE….

    To answer your question Jake, no – it also does, well, something in MSIE too. But it doesn’t do much, and it does even less in any other browser.

    Now, reread my full comment you quoted…. I’m not slamming the concept. Just the product as it is today – something that NEVER should have been shown off.

    Again, why the rush? Their stagnent stock price? Sleight-of-hand to distract people from yet another Vista delay? I have no clue, but I do know a disaster of a demo when I see one. A muddled message when I hear one.

    And this was certainly that.

  • Dave

    “Dave – are you saying that the only platform that this stuff runs on is Powerpoint?”

    Well, if I have to explain the shortcomings of how this “major” public unveiling of (a) a confusing product line that (b) runs only on MSIE while (c) not doing anything new and (d) has as it’s biggest feature a signup list for (e) that unknown day in the future it will actually be something concrete….

    Reread my comments – in this post and others.

    (1) The only tangible(?) outcome from PDC ’03 was hype. Those fabled pillars? Some are finally in beta of one form or another – 18 months after the fact.

    (2) Whidbey was 12 months late in release. Yukon just about the same. Longhorn/Vista… 18 months and counting, with nearly a complete overhaul of features.

    (3) With the exception of XBox, Microsoft has been very underwhelming with true product releases since 2001. Too bad they overcompensated for that with overblown hype.

    (4) Two quotes from Robert:

    “Alfredo: because the developers are working to get things done very quickly and are then going to work on making it work with other browsers.”

    “Scott Hanselman, one of our best customers, is confused by Windows Live.”

    Along with one from a commentor:

    “And someone tell Matt that a splash screen is NOT having it ‘out there in the world for real.’”

    Along with what this, um, software itself says if you try to view it in anything but MSIE….

    To answer your question Jake, no – it also does, well, something in MSIE too. But it doesn’t do much, and it does even less in any other browser.

    Now, reread my full comment you quoted…. I’m not slamming the concept. Just the product as it is today – something that NEVER should have been shown off.

    Again, why the rush? Their stagnent stock price? Sleight-of-hand to distract people from yet another Vista delay? I have no clue, but I do know a disaster of a demo when I see one. A muddled message when I hear one.

    And this was certainly that.

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