Comments on: Still Confused about Windows Live

By: Windows Live FolderShare No Longer Strictly P2P?| Zoli’s Blog

Windows Live FolderShare No Longer Strictly P2P?| Zoli’s Blog — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:47:37 +0000

[...] course using two products for somewhat similar purposes is redundant, and I have previously speculated that Microsoft should tie Foldershare and Skydrive (Live Mesh, Live Drive – pick your favorite [...]

By: Windows "Live" (Now Dead) Foldershare Has an Architectural Weakness| Zoli’s Blog

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:55:49 +0000

[...] course I have previously speculated that Microsoft should tie Foldershare and Skydrive, offering both PC sync and Web backup, in which [...]

By: Prashanth Rai

Prashanth Rai — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:36:59 +0000

Zoli, Though at this time the MS LIVE might be confusing but i do think MS is on the right track. They still have a lot of things to get right. First i think they need to try and get their act together and focus on being the UI for the ESOA & Web2.0 worlds. Some initial thoughts on this here

By: Who is in the clouds and who isn’t? « business, strategy, governance

Who is in the clouds and who isn’t? « business, strategy, governance — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:16:56 +0000

[...] is in the clouds and who isn’t? Zoli posted over here about a couple of incongruous [...]

By: Sumanth

Sumanth — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:11:22 +0000

Zoli,
You said “I disagree with the softare+services approach a lot” – am really curious to know what you find objectionable to this approach.
Especially so when flagbearers and poster childs of SaaS like Salesforce.com also have client applications that users can install on their systems to integrate dekstop applications like Word to the salesforce.com service.In fact, doesn’t your fav Zoho also have similar client applications?
There are a lot of situations where an “install in an on-demand world” make sense!

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:38:23 +0000

Hi Kip,

Thanks for your comment. I disagree with the softare+services approach a lot, although in some cases it makes sense… but that’s a good discussion to keep for a post on its own.

I’m using feedburner, and am checking my own feed daily, including today. I don’t have newsgator, using Google Reader here, but 6% of my subscribers are Newsgator readers… I wonder if it only barked momentarily … could you try again and if it fails, let me know the error.

Thanks.

By: kip

kip — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:34:25 +0000

It’s more what MS has taken to calling “software + services”. Why run your OS/applications in the cloud when you’re sitting on dual or quad core processors and a load of memory and storage?

At the same time, it’s the “get to it anywhere, anytime” feature of services that is most compelling. If you’re on a phone, or at a kiosk at a hotel, getting some manner of rich services can be valuable.

Anyway thanks for the trackback link to LiveSide! I subscribed to your feed, but Newsgator barked about some xml errors in your feed – you might want to take a look.