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I was just catching up on Microsoft's "live" announcements today - tipped off by the all-knowing John Rymer at Forrester - thanks John. Cutting straight through the press releases and opinions pieces I went straight to Microsoft's manifestation of "Live" - the Windows Live Beta - I hit reload a couple of times because I though my Google home page was somehow corrupted - it had a Windows logo and said something about not supporting Firefox just yet - weird - what's happening. After looking a bit more carefully I realized what I was actually looking at was Microsoft's AJAXy portal clone - it's stunningly similar to Google : very simple layout, draggable channels, AJAX, RSS, maps, mail, IM, search, etc. Incredible. Incredible lack of innovation and originality.
The best bit is the banner at the top - "Firefox support is coming soon. Please be patient :-)" - very PC.
One part of me wants to think that this site was quickly knocked-up by a couple of interns to upset Sergey and Larry. Then again I think there is some real meat behind other parts of the Live announcement - more on that when I get time.
It'll be interesting to see how the Google / Microsoft battle plays out - I hope Yahoo doesn't get caught in the cross-fire.
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