Windows Live - Ok, this just sucks.
Posted by Joe Rinehart at 10:51 PM
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Oh, Windows live. Excuse me if I'm cynical, but you've already succeeded it providing a lousy desktop experience (See: "Click Start to Stop"), so now you're going to take on the Web 2.0 crowd?
Let's try this out.
www.live.com.
"Firefox Users: Firefox support is coming soon. Please be patient :-)"
Oh geez. Don't make me click that blue thingie.
Sigh. *click*
www.live.com
Oh, a search bar. That's new.
Holy sh*t! Weather forecasts! I can have a homepage with weather forecasts!
And mail?!? It'll show me my e-mail.
Oh...gadgets. That could be cool. I heard OS X Tiger has this great Dashboard thingie, maybe this'll be like that, but in a browser.
Oh. It's javascript updating some text.
Feeds. I guess that's RSS. I don't see anything explaining what it really is. I can drag them from somewhere, but I don't see them. Oh, there they are, under categories.
The only good thing about my Windows Live experience was the beer I had while browsing. Seriously, this was amateur shlock. I could see this being an entry in a 48-hour coding contest written by one guy.
Sean Corfield wrote on 11/02/05 12:00 AM
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