Microsoft to launch YouTube rival

Visage said:
Leading the field = doing something new = risky.

Risky is fine when you're just starting up - in fact its the only way.

When you're a multi-billion dollar company though, its a BIG no-no.
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Erm, right. Tell that to Google. Who releases more new products and ideas than I take dumps.
 
Lets be honest here, does it matter?? Microsoft in the past/present/future have copied others idea, some have been better, some havent.

Who thought youtube would get so big?
Whether you like it or not, they are the biggest in computing software, so they will do as they please. They cant take huge risks and losse everything.
 
they've never been original. He kind of stole windows as well. Not much of there stuff is original. But damn it works and it works well with so many things. What MS have done for computing is more than any other company. Business wouldn't be what they are with out the integration that MS brought with windows.

Yes I hate there huge prices. But I think most MS bashers are just that, because its fashionable...
 
Concorde Rules said:
In what way?

Microsoft have copied apple, they even copied the GUI in the first place.
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ipod, video ipod, apple set-top box (whenever that's released) to name but a few off the top of my head..

As much as I'm REALLY not a M$ fanboi it pokes my pecker when people spank themselves sore over Apple and how "cool" it is to have some overpriced white hardware..
 
locutus12 said:
so far to name but a few, its copied:
Search Engines ---> Ask Jeeves
Unix ---> windows NT later becomming the OS we all use today.
Mp3 player (not dissimilar looking to an ipod) ---> Zune
Games console ---> XBOX
Real player + other players ---> Media Player
Netscape ---> Internet explorer


it wouldnt be so bad if these products were unique but for most of them if you look under the hood they are just blatent rip off`s of their competitors...
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Apple/Xerox GUI ---> windows 3.1 GUI
Zone Alarm ----> Windows Firewall

MS are soon to enter the Antivirus/spyware business and they are going to charge a recurring fee for it.
 
neocon said:
Apple/Xerox GUI ---> windows 3.1 GUI
Zone Alarm ----> Windows Firewall

MS are soon to enter the Antivirus/spyware business and they are going to charge a recurring fee for it.
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..which people will be under no obligation to pay for....
 
nero120 said:
Im sure they all do indirectly through advertising if nothing else. If they didnt make money, why would they exist?
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I'll tell you: in 2005, revenue unrelated to core activities (i.e advertising), contributed 1% of googles revenues.

As for why they do it, I dont know. Perhaps you should ask Google?
 
locutus12 said:
youtube get 100 million hits a day and have just struck a deal with a major record company (to do what im not sure) i doubt they are going under any time soon.
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YouTube is still running almost entirely off VC money (circa £12m if I recall correctly) and is far from self-sufficient. Their bandwidth bills are in the millions each month and they're struggling (not to mention failing) to monetize the massive amount of traffic they are getting. The fact is, text ad supported video content is just not going to work in the long term — not unless something revolutionary happens. Then there's the fact that, whilst they are throwing millions down the drain, every copyright holder and his dog is now queuing up to sue them.

As far this Microsoft alternative, judging by their previous forays into online applications, I'm confident it will never get off the ground. As usual they will completely miss the point, miss the target demographic and refuse to take users opinions into account. They'll get a bundle of media attention (just because it's Microsoft — if this were the product of a start-up they would be laughed at by the online community and get no recognition from the press) and will pick up a few users through existing MSN products, but it won't be the next YouTube, that's for sure.
 
paddyuk said:
micro$oft

this is why im changing to mac, im really getting sick of m$
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I understand that MS are trying to make as much profit as possible, but that still doesn't put me off their products. They're just playing the market, and doing bloody good at it aswell. Their new Zune could put the price of the iPod down.
 
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