Microsoft doing it right

around lunchtime on Sunday, the 21st of October 2007 by Chad

At least I think so. At least in respect to their “Live” offerings.

I’m using Live Writer all the time now for blog posting. I just can’t wait for a version to come out that supports Windows Mobile.

Live Messenger is my favorite chat client because it is a simple nice clean interface. Yahoo and AIM clients have too much distraction all over the client yelling “WOO HOO LOOK HERE” instead of simply allowing me to chat. The video/audio feature just works when I chat back with my parents. It just works without taking up a bunch of screen real estate, which is most important to me.

Played with their new Live SkyDrive today. You get a gig of web file storage. Once again, a very nice, clean interface that just works without a lot of crap on the screen. You can even embed your shared folder in other pages like this:

Pretty slick I think.

Lots of other “Live” offerings. They’re basically doing what Google Labs used to do.