Microsoft to launch YouTube rival

Slogan · 21 Sep 2006 at 19:14

If Microsoft are to follow this project up - what could be improved? (Compared to YouTube)

Fantom · 21 Sep 2006 at 19:17

Slogan said:
If Microsoft are to follow this project up - what could be improved? (Compared to YouTube)

I really dont know right now but im sure someone working for MS on a 6 figure salary could tell you

Slogan · 21 Sep 2006 at 19:24

L337 LooX said:
I really dont know right now but im sure someone working for MS on a 6 figure salary could tell you

I doubt she'd/he'd tell me. I'd sell her/his idea.

Is YouTube a pay for system? (I mean for Director accounts)

Fantom · 21 Sep 2006 at 19:31

Slogan said:
I doubt she'd/he'd tell me. I'd sell her/his idea.

Is YouTube a pay for system? (I mean for Director accounts)

Yeah theres a difference between "could" and "would" unfortunetly

I have no idea about the youtube pay system :confused:

Six6siX · 21 Sep 2006 at 21:23

Google, anyone?

Competition in any market is a good thing imo.

Christo · 21 Sep 2006 at 22:09

Slogan said:
If Microsoft are to follow this project up - what could be improved? (Compared to YouTube)

Profit sharing model - ie original content producers get paid a percentage of advertising revenue dependant on number of hits. There is a site trying to do this however is tiny compared to youtube.

yer_averagejoe · 22 Sep 2006 at 00:48

Slogan said:
If Microsoft are to follow this project up - what could be improved? (Compared to YouTube)

They'd probably start off by giving the demanded bandwidth.

cheets64 · 22 Sep 2006 at 00:56

You tube has sold out big time (NBC), so why not let someone who doesnt need to sell out.

Lagz · 22 Sep 2006 at 01:06

Chrisp7 said:
Profit sharing model - ie original content producers get paid a percentage of advertising revenue dependant on number of hits. There is a site trying to do this however is tiny compared to youtube.

Very recently they started doing this for signed artists etc. Basically a user can use copyrighted material in their videos - youtube have software to detect when this is done - and then gives a percentage of the advertising revenue to the record label who own the rights to the material used.

I'm guessing you want this model extended so all users get a share of the profit.

pyro · 22 Sep 2006 at 06:58

paddyuk said:
micro$oft

this is why im changing to mac, im really getting sick of m$

Uh....I don't understand this. Why pay more for something white and shiny? PCs work as good.

pyro · 22 Sep 2006 at 07:15

Stiff_Cookie said:
Threads in this forums are becoming more anal every day.

Chill man

AJUK · 22 Sep 2006 at 07:44

pyro said:
PCs work as good.

No, no they don't. The hardware might but the OS certainly doesn't.

Visage · 22 Sep 2006 at 08:41

AJUK said:
No, no they don't. The hardware might but the OS certainly doesn't.

PCs can do everything Macs can, and more.

Chronos-X · 22 Sep 2006 at 08:42

Anti-microsoft whinging is a bit 1998 isn't it?

They're a successful company that develops existing products and concepts and adds a bit of their own, just like every company thats ever made anything ever. :rolleyes:

AJUK · 22 Sep 2006 at 08:45

Visage said:
PCs can do everything Macs can, and more.

Yep, PeeCees can do everything Macs can do plus more such as crash for no reason, contract and spread viruses and spyware, display a non consistant interface, excercise your fingers by taking at twice as many mouse clicks to do the same thing. What a delight.

chrislusty · 22 Sep 2006 at 08:54

AJUK said:
Yep, PeeCees can do everything Macs can do plus more such as crash for no reason, contract and spread viruses and spyware, display a non consistant interface, excercise your fingers by taking at twice as many mouse clicks to do the same thing. What a delight.

Well my PC in work has been on now for 524hours, the laptop at home is put on standby when not in use, and hasnt been rebooted for over a month.

In work i am using remote desktop edditing pics, web development, burning CDs and ather IT technician stuff, it doesnt need a reboot, and it hasnt crashed.

PCs can do everything and more that a mac does. There are more virus programs written for XP as putting a virus on XP will cause more harm than writing one for a mac.

I have had XP built on the laptop for nealry a year. I dont run spyware runs very often, but the first one i did, when XP had been on for 6months found nothing!

XP is brilliant IMO and it does everything i need it to.

KizZ · 22 Sep 2006 at 08:55

AJUK said:
Yep, PeeCees can do everything Macs can do plus more such as crash for no reason, contract and spread viruses and spyware, display a non consistant interface, excercise your fingers by taking at twice as many mouse clicks to do the same thing. What a delight.

Is that man using a PC in your sig

HEADRAT · 22 Sep 2006 at 08:59

AJUK said:
Yep, PeeCees can do everything Macs can do plus more such as crash for no reason, contract and spread viruses and spyware, display a non consistant interface, excercise your fingers by taking at twice as many mouse clicks to do the same thing. What a delight.

Well I've been using PC's for over 20 years on non of those things have caused me any great pain, must be a user issue

HEADRAT

chrislusty · 22 Sep 2006 at 09:01

usererror.exe

AJUK · 22 Sep 2006 at 09:02

I have no doubt at all that it is a user issue!

It isn't a PC it is an early mac.