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Posted in Google, Microsoft at 3:06 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Microsoft hangs the Messenger
EARLY in the day we wrote about Microsoft discarding over 2,000 more employees and once in about a fortnight (on average) we see yet another Microsoft product being axed. The latest product which Microsoft axes has got a few hours left to live. That product is MSN Web Messenger.
=> Microsoft discarding over 2,000 more employees | ↺ has got a few hours left to live
The site will go offline June 30.Microsoft made the announcement on its Windows Live blog.
This may represent another defeat to Google (this time it’s videochat) and it resembles Microsoft’s loss to Google’s book-scanning initiative and YouTube too.
=> ↺ Google (this time it’s videochat) | YouTube too
The Microsoft-sponsored press is already showing this list of dead products which Microsoft has been accumulating.
=> Microsoft-sponsored press | ↺ this list of dead products
Microsoft’s sidewalk memorial to Encarta, Money and other fossils[...]For anyone who’s never been there, the company has this great old courtyard in Redmond where for many years it placed plaques in the sidewalk for nearly every piece of software it shipped.
It is very much out of date. With almost 20 dead products in the past 9 months (list needs updating), Microsoft will need many more plaques. █
=> ↺ almost 20 dead products in the past 9 months
“Microsoft is, I think, fundamentally an evil company.”
–Former Netscape Chairman James H. Clark
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