| Microsoft's Live Mesh - open standards, it just works, simplicity?! |
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| Written by Ken Task | |||
| Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:03 | |||
"... the dilemma for consumers is that adding a new device to the mix makes reading content from one device to another difficult, he said. Microsoft's fix is to use open standards like Atom, JSON, POX, RSS, HTTP, REST, and FeedSync to allow for interoperability." "... it just works experience ..." "... extended a hand to developers by mirroring chief technology officer Ray Ozzie's pledge that the Web is at the center of Microsoft's experience and not the traditional PC." So tell me again, why do I need to buy Vista? Wasn't Sun the one that said the network was the computer? Hasn't Apple had the reputation of "it just works" and "file sharing" for some time now? Aren't most social app/Linux based services based on open standards? A typically ill informed Windows user (translate home) might think very highly of MS for this "innovation" and never know that MS was the last to come around to Web 2.0 and once again, "late to the party". The first comment posted to the article linked below was this: "Don't have much faith in ms anymore, could be a great product but I'd rather not get hooks on an MS product." Actually, I do hope MS succeeds with Live Mesh for it means "open" IS WINNING! That might lead to greater interoperability ... something promised, but yet to be delivered in any true sense. http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/web2.0/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207401733
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