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Re: Google and MSFT need to try harder

Weight Bee — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:18:37 -0000

I’m not sure if they heard me or not. Its been my experience that the ad agencies would love to get a bigger piece of the web pie, but that they don’t really understand it. They prefer to make it look flashy, and hope the design drives traffic

Re: Google and MSFT need to try harder

Elwyn Jenkins — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:43:01 -0000

Any of these services charging an annual fee, even as small as $20 is a pain in the neck. I am cutting these small fees out as I was paying something like $1,500 is small fees per annum across all the services on offer. Now I chase the free services, thus Docs and Spreadsheets has some of my documents, Zoho has others, etc. . . I am spreading my risk and obtaining all the free portions of each service.

Re: Google and MSFT need to try harder

PierreS — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:52:12 -0000

I agree. This is a disappointing decision. The sole Google site that I am really using is gmail. I have some interest in Calendar and Docs - but there are other options that I feel are comparable or better (Zoho and Airset). As for Picasa - I really do not see much value to it.

I was actually pleasantly surprised with Microsoft's decision - it is not much but it is better than what they have done in the past. However, my preference is for either Xdrive or Box.net

Re: Google and MSFT need to try harder

Mike Torres — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:41:32 -0000

Storage isn't "virtually free" when you multiply it by hundreds of thousands of users - or millions of them. Email has a very different pattern of usage.

Having said that, expect Microsoft to continue to push new things in this space over time.

Re: Google and MSFT need to try harder

GearsofWar — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:27:09 -0000

Microsoft's 500meg limit is obviously carefully set to keep anyone from uploading movies (divx run around 600M min.) or games.

Another case of someone planning a service based mainly on PREVENTING 5% of the "bad" people from doing questionable stuff, rather than ENABLING the 95% of "good" people from actually, you know, getting something useful :p
(cf. DRM, etc.)