Scobleizer » live mesh http://scobleizer.com Exploring the 2010 Web Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:03:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Why Microsoft Live Mesh will fail with early adopters http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/01/why-microsoft-live-mesh-will-fail-with-early-adopters/ http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/01/why-microsoft-live-mesh-will-fail-with-early-adopters/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 05:38:21 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4209 OK, OK, forget for a moment that many early adopters are serious Mac fans and are trying to wash Microsoft out of their hair.

I’ve stumbled onto what really is challenging for companies that want me to load software onto my computer: when something goes wrong we start uninstalling everything to see if there’s something the matter. And things with limited utility are gonna stay uninstalled.

Joel Spolsky said this yesterday about Live Mesh, but came at it another way.

I just had a problem with Skype video and I uninstalled everything to see if I could get my system to behave. Guess what? After uninstalling 10 things Skype video works great. I need Skype video a lot more than I need backup.

So, guess what goes? Everything but Skype video.

Fail. And we wonder why most of what gets the hype lately is Web sites? Here you go. Sorry Ray Ozzie.

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