Comments on: Windows Live and Office Live

By: huh

huh — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:43:55 +0000

you know microsoft owns start.com right? its their site….

By: cg

cg — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:39:50 +0000

What a joke. A f*king active-x control of turd, I mean word, grafted into IE.
See you in hell Bill.

By: jB: no - that's definitely not good enough

jB: no - that's definitely not good enough — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:38:58 +0000

live.com live

Microsoft’s Bill Gates has revealed the plans for their live Platform (office live, safety center, xbox live etc, etc), with it’s main portal (live.com) basically being a face-lifted start.com. You can adjust and tweak that page to your needs by addi…

By: Alex Pooley's Blog

Alex Pooley's Blog — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:11:03 +0000

Microsoft 3.0

Microsoft have announced Microsoft Live, and Office Live In my opinion, it

By: Microsoft Lover

Microsoft Lover — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:11:48 +0000

WTF is this? A joke? It doesn’t even display well on IE and looks like the pre-alpha version of start.com.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:45:22 +0000

Yeah, the search uses ajax but it doesn’t really gain much by being in ajax. The back button works but then you can’t go forward back to the search results also you can’t bookmark or share the search url.

By: Jeff Rogers

Jeff Rogers — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:27:58 +0000

Q: How do you spot an AJAX application?
A: Try using the Back/Forward Button..

By: 40

40 — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:48:02 +0000

one more thing…why is this even related to Office? This isn’t office, this is nothing more than a next-gen portal play.

By: 40

40 — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:44:01 +0000

Agreed but this does have some potential when looking at their free apps.

Unfortunately, the failed to offer everything under one global sign-in. Why do I need to sign-up for each service seperately? What ever happened to passport?

By: shane

shane — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:43:37 +0000

yep. looks a lot like start.com

Where’s the office live. that I gots to see.

By: Gtox

Gtox — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:23:58 +0000

looks to me like start.com pretty much just changed their name and some colors…not seeing anything shocking yet…

By: Jeff Rogers

Jeff Rogers — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:21:34 +0000

I asssume this was live.com is the same as start.com

I don’t see the value here, anyone can create a javascript tree menu and ajax nowadays. What happened to innovation at Microsoft?