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re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

techfan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:37:22 GMT

@robertsjoe: Sorry? What feature in Gmail is like Hotmail's "Quick Add"?

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

routerbad — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:06:56 GMT

Yeah, missed that.

I just think that companies that learn from their competitors is a good thing. If people will use that new feature and choose to use that product to fulfill their need then it's a win for the consumer. Because rolling out products and services that people will buy/use is every company's mission.

This is how the market works, though it can be hard to compete against heavily entrenched firms. So I hope that people get a chance to see/use this and other features in the Windows Live ecosystem.

I haven't a problem with Google (though sometimes I think they want to take over the earth). I just think that certain people should give credit where credit is due.

Google is definitely not going anywhere, so why not take a look at some of the other choices out there? Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't, but you'll certainly be better off for having the opportunity to choose, no?

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

mikegalos@msn.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:40:24 GMT

lketchum

It really is amazing how living six months in the future and thinking five years ahead keeps you young while doing what you're told and liking what you're told to like ages people so quickly.

I wonder, though, how much of it is luck of timing. The people in this industry born from the mid-'50s through the mid-'60s seem like Dorian Gray while those born earlier and later seem more like his portrait. Or perhaps its just the universe apologizing for having us live our lives in the shadow of the baby boom.

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

RunTimeError — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:19:21 GMT

routerbad :

You singed up to feed our troll.

Bravo.

You must have missed the big notification on the way in that says: "Do not feed robertsjoe!"

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

lketchum — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:37:51 GMT

@Mike's OT:

Very exciting times, indeed!

Le me see, little SL 3.x, lil MVC under ASP.NET, VS2010, Gazelle the instant I want it out of a baked NAND running parallel to the main chipset, silent/transparent boot to the main OS when I want, or need it, sync with the cache from my Gazelle based session. Bing around the web a bit, simultaneously access my own cloud, MS's, S3's and whatever else I need or want... forget using enterprise apps - they are so smart that people "just work" normally and they push visual intelligence to me upon which I make my decisions... and occasionally, but not too often, wonder why in the heck anyone is excited about Google, or whatever they happen to polish into some half-baked approximation of what I have been enjoying for years.... show a few other friends that also happen to run and build businesses and simply "share" what we enjoy with them.

Regretfully, as in a sad reflective way, observe guys like Robertsjoe and other young people, and worry that they'll never find their own way, much less aspire to create a better world for themselves and others... as they accept whatever populist mantra happens to be regarded as cool and topical in the moment... and just at the point when that sort of reflection would begin to drag on the day, turn my attention to just how dang wicked sick cool having immediate access to such information really is... this stuff will keep you young forever if you just let it... and poor ole Robertsjoe, is older than I will ever be... it's like living on a gorgeous beach for years and never going in the water, because some jerk said it wasn't or shouldn't be any fun. Hey RJ, get out there, young man... last I checked, some pretty young gals with bright eyes and lean limbs were walking around looking a bit lonely... just say'in...

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

mikegalos@msn.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:43:57 GMT

OT: But Time Sensitive

http://www.SeeTheLight.com will show the launch of Silverlight 3 at 7:00AM PDT. (roughly 15 minutes from the time I post this)

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

routerbad — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:35:51 GMT

[quote]

This is not a "new feature unique to Hotmail". GMail has already got this. [/quote]

Google has already integrated Bing with GMail?!?! Ballsy ;P

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

routerbad — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:34:04 GMT

I read this blog all the time (along with the comments). I had to register just to say what a troll robertsjoe is.

We understand Google has a similar feature. In fact, if had read any of the previous comments, it has already been mentioned.

This isn't the same feature, as Google only allows you to search the web through gmail, Microsoft expanded on this feature.

I half expect you to troll that Microsoft ripped off Google's idea of actually "searching" the web. Those B***ards!

Even if they had "ripped off" the idea, does it keep you from continuing to use Google to do it? I would impart that if the feature is good for users, and good for business, why is it a bad thing?

Are you honestly that scared that Microsoft is going to steal Google market share with this? I think not. So why be a tool about it? Google isn't going anywhere for a long time, because of its ubiquity.

</soapbox> (no pun intended)

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

whiplash55 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:54:02 GMT

lketchum

Thanks for the info!

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robertsjoe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:57:37 GMT

*sigh* yet another thing Microsoft has ripped off from someone else. Recently it's the layout of Bing. Now this? Pathetic.

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

robertsjoe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:53:43 GMT

This is not a "new feature unique to Hotmail". GMail has already got this.

Don't claim this as unique. It's a copy of what Google has already done, for months now, with GMail.

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

lketchum — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:42:01 GMT

Mike/Whip

Windows Imaging Component (WIC), especially in Vista/Win7 is one of my favorite features. Yeah, I know, one can download some support for WIC in XP, but... what they don't tell people is that WIC is for everyone and it allows developers with no understanding of image file formats to access a consistent model that automates the delivery of required support, like codecs, from within an application. It allows independent shops to write their own codecs, yet access the platform in the same way well known file types can. Companies like TechSmith who produce amazing products like Camtasia and SnagIT make use on WIC in Vista. We make use of it to ship custom graphing applications and entire digital dashes. AS Mike points out, installation makes the codec available for all installed apps using it. Please see, msdn2.microsoft.com/.../ms737408.aspx

re: Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

gfryesc1 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:19:00 GMT

if apple came up with 'decision engine', I'm sure paul would jump all over it for just how idiotic it is. meh.