Another attempt of monopolization from Microsoft is on the rise again, after an intern memos leaked by Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet); which basically the contents revealed that the author of the memos wanted to better connect the next version of Windows Mobile with the next version of Windows Live. This means the Windows Mobile 7 will integrate Windows Live accounts into its system, much like the type of monopolization that EU has been fighting long time ago with Microsoft about IE in Windows OS.
This is the lines taken from the peculiar 'Windows Live Wave 3' memos: "We have an opportunity to make it much easier for customers to ‘get started’ with Windows Live. Our goal should be to have customers log in, type their Live ID, and then they are automatically ’set up’ with Live. For new machines, we want Windows Live to come with the experience and will consider investments to make this experience easy."
I'd say this is just another Microsoft's struggle to fight GMail dominance, because everybody are using Gmail even with ther WinMob mobile phones. Source is via Gizmodo.
[blogged with my Treo 750v]
2 comments:
Surely its exactly this end to end intergration which for example iPhone users cite as the main reason they love their devices.
Secondly you can hardly argue that Windows Mobile OR MSN has anything close to monopoly status.
That's what Microsoft have thought of when, and even until now, they fought against the anti-trust law suit back then. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft)
And I agree that the bundled apps into OS is a great thing for end-customers, like me too.
But we all know Microsoft very well, and what they will do to keep their products to be more superior than others...
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