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Tuesday 28 April 2009, 1:40 PM
Not Such A Vine Idea
Mary-Jo Foley is reporting on the American version of this site that Microsoft are set to launch Vine, a "twitter-like" public notification service.
Hmmmm. At some point can't they go back and sort out the problems with the stuff they have RATHER than push out a whole host of me-too products with a ho hum set of features?
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To give Microsoft some credit, they've obviously realised that its days of making money from selling licence fees to the same people over and over again are coming to an end, and is moving more into services — Live.com is a great example of this.
What Microsoft has to realise, though, is that people are far more free to choose which service they use, and unless there's a compelling reason to use MS's version of Twitter, people will stick with what they're already using.
Microsoft also has to realise that even if they can tempt users into using its service, it has to find a way of monetising that use, and if the only way it has of doing that is advertising, then it will probably never make any money at it.
