06.18.09
Microsoft Soapbox is on Fire
Summary: Another Microsoft product put near the firing line
Last year, Microsoft decided to axe its book scanning (and search) project. In essence, it lost this race to Google. Microsoft has some other me-too projects which virtually copy Google (Maps, Apps, etc.) and another one if them seems to be dying. Some people never even heard of it.
Microsoft plans to “significantly scale back” its Soapbox service, the would-be YouTube challenger it launched in 2006. Whatever that means.
This is part of a never-ending series of dead/dying Microsoft products. Last week it was Microsoft Money. █
The Mad Hatter said,
June 20, 2009 at 3:14 am
What Soapbox project? Seriously. Who uses it? Microsoft employees only?
Why would Microsoft even have tried something like this? Rather than waste shareholder’s money, why didn’t they invest in fixing the Windows security model?
Yeah, I know. Video is sexy. Security isn’t.
Roy Schestowitz Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 3:32 am
Experience suggests that Microsoft employees use YouTube (see what they use for viral marketing and their blogs), just as they use Google search and Flash.
The Mad Hatter said,
June 20, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Exactly. Even Microsoft employees don’t use it. It’s about as useful as “tits on a boar” as my dear old Dad (who was a farmer) used to say.