Windows Live Expo: Microsoft launches several online services
March 1st, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 33 times, 1 so far today
Microsoft launches several online services
Microsoft is getting on track with their online services as they launched a couple of new ones for their users yesterday. This included an early version of their own version of online classifieds, which is for now limited to the MSN users in the United States.
Microsoft’s MSN Division also launched a local search function that provides extremely detailed pictures of local streets. This is designed to compete with Google Local services, which are very popular amongst the web users in the country.
The software giant also said that they are planning to begin testing a desktop e-mail product designed to work with the company’s online e-mail accounts. This would be similar to their existing offering Microsoft Outlook Express. This surprises us considering why the company simply does not replace this old email client, which is shipped with the Windows Operating System.
Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Vista is due to get an overhauled version of their mail client and would be called Windows Mail.
Microsoft’s new search function is called “street view†and it is aimed at users a driver’s view of downtown Seattle and San Francisco. They also have plans to soon introduce a street level view service which would be similar to the one provided by Amazon’s A9.
Microsoft also launched a preview release of their online-classified service, called Windows Live Expo.
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March 14th, 2006 at 09:39 am
Ok I just got my glimpse of it and it is total crap.. 25% of the top of the entire page is a HUGE annoying ad. Than let’s make it worse lets throw another ad to the right and take up another 20% of the screen.. that makes about 45% of the entire screen an annoying ad fest reminds me of AOHELL! Which I have never used by the way. Now let’s make it even more unuseable let’s add the menu’s to the left so not only is folders on left which is fine but now the entire menu interface is on left making it even worse. Total CRAP is right.