Windows Live | Mais uma revolução on-line?

A Microsoft anunciou que vai passar a disponibilizar em breve dois novos serviços: o Windows Live e o Office Live. Esta estratégia da empresa liderada por Bill Gates visa a antecipação relativamente a iniciativas dos principais rivais, Yahoo e Google. Será que estes serviços vão mais uma vez revolucionar o modo como trabalhamos?

O artigo

The portable Microsoft?
COMPANY UNVEILS ONLINE SERVICES IN BID TO ANSWER GOOGLE, YAHOO
By John Boudreau and Michael Bazeley
Mercury News

In a strategy shift to deal with a new era of competition from Internet rivals like Google and Yahoo, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled two new sets of online services for individuals and small businesses.
Windows Live (http://www.live.com/) will allow people to create sophisticated personal Web pages with links to favorite news sites, music and e-mail. The new services would allow people to manage a range of digital content, but they would not replace Microsoft's traditional -- and lucrative -- Windows operating system running on computer hard drives.

A citação

"More and more a user's daily experience is going to shift to the Web, off the hard drive and on to the network. Instead of the Web being an adjunct to the desktop, the desktop is going to be an adjunct to the Web.''
- David Temkin, chief technology officer of Laszlo Systems, a Bay Area company that specializes in Web-based applications.

A data

O Office Live vai estar disponível em versão teste no primeiro trimestre de 2006.