Microsoft Live Today / Apple Live
Microsoft releases Microsoft LIVE applications today.
Meanwhile, rumour predicted that Apple will announce a new widescreen iPod Video today and other products including a new iTunes Movie download store. There was even a rumour about Intel Core 2 Duo chips in the MacBook Pro laptops.
Today, we finally get to see “What’s New!”
Let’s start with the big buzz today:
Apple will start it’s HollyPod (my term for Apple’s Hollywood takeover) in the U.S. with about 75 movies, which includes new releases. Apparently, two weeks after Morgan Freeman’s lastest movies hits the big screen it will be available on the little screen in it’s entirety. No wonder Morgan said that Apple’s new movie service is “surely the wave of the future”. This is good because so far I’ve enjoyed every movie that Morgan Freeman has been in.
The general comment is that the Apple movie business “... is a very significant announcement”.
Can you image being able to start watching a new movie release one minute after you click the download button?
Today’s Apple Annoucements
...You may recall the SNL Skit featuring Steve Jobs iPod micro.
...Colour my world, Baby!
...a SNL Skit reversal. No widescreen, but still very cool.
...Another SNL prediction... Pong!
...Nobody forgets the famous 1984 Macintosh Superbowl commercial
...From one download to the computer to the iPod to the Widescreen TV.
...Hey, Paul updated my iTunes with his iPod today. Shifting through Album covers is easier and faster with iTunes 7 than it is my living room.
...Looks like Disney’s biggest, most influential shareholder is also happy!
Couch potato, here I come?
...Watch the event for yourself.
As for Microsoft Live, I didn’t find any mention of it on Microsoft’s website. When it I went to Live.com, I saw a rather empty looking, boring screen containing a search box with no explanation as to what are the advantages or purpose of using this particular search engine. It seems to be latest of a series of desperate retaliation moves against the influence of Google, which released it’s Google Office apps weeks earlier. Google’s release is significant because it’s very concept suggest that the software-based Microsoft Office concept is a dead one. I was expecting to see Microsoft launch a counter-attack that would send Google’s head spinning today. Instead all I got was a search engine box. I guess I’ll have keep searching for answers to the question, ‘How is this significant?’.
Today, once again, Apple has proven that it is live and kicking. But, is Microsoft Live an attempt to resuscitate the dead? I guess you’ll have to be the judge.
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