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Bing Adopts MSN Video, Rechristened as Bing Videos

After cannibalizing Live Search and additional brands related to the moniker used for Microsoft’s former search engine, Bing now swallowed MSN Video. Through the marriage between Bing and MSN Video, Microsoft has created Bing Videos, essentially rebranding the old MSN service under the brand umbrella for its se...

11 November 2009
07:29 GMT

Microsoft Evolves Windows Live Messenger, but Not to Version 9.0

Microsoft has evolved its instant messaging client, but the evolution does not involve the next version of Windows Live Messenger, labeled as 9.0 and released initially in November 2007, as a private Beta. In fact, there is still no word from Microsoft as to the future of the successor of Windows Live Messenger 8.5, ...

13 May 2008
05:15 GMT

Microsoft Slipping Off the Online Video Market

The online video market has not been kind to Microsoft. Neither has it been kind to Google or Yahoo for that matter. But Google made a brilliant move back in 2006, and coughed up some $1.5 billion for YouTube, a deal on which Microsoft's Chief Executive Office, Steve Ballmer, said pass at the time, arguing that ...

11 February 2008
09:22 GMT

YouTube Down the Chute Lane for the Second Straight Week

YouTube, the video sharing service offered by Google, has seen some surprising numbers in its past two-week traffic performance. Nielsen Online monitored it and saw that the world's biggest video site dropped down by about one million unique users, from 30.7 million to 29.7 million. The week it was measured for ...

23 January 2008
02:24 GMT

Microsoft Is Insignificant Compared to Google

On the online video market, there is Google, and then there are the rest. And Microsoft is just one of the anonymous crowd, elbowing away for a few meager percentages of audience that fall off as crumbs from Google's YouTube feast. With in excess of 75% of Internet users in the U.S. having watched an online vide...

18 January 2008
05:08 GMT

Microsoft's Video Content Sites Explode

While there is little room left for doubt that Microsoft is gunning after Google in every way possible in the face-off for Internet audience, there is a similar certitude that the Redmond company is the undisputed underdog, lagging behind the Mountain View search giant. But, at least in one facet of the race for eyeb...

3 December 2007
04:42 GMT

MSN Video Jumps as High as It Can But Still Doesn't Even Come Close to YouTube

In the larger and multi-faceted face-off between Google and Microsoft, the Redmond and Mountain View giants compete on various fronts. And with MSN Video and YouTube, Microsoft and Google are in the race for the largest share of the online video market. So far, Google has positioned itself as an indisputable leader, ...

28 November 2007
11:43 GMT

Is YouTube Heading for the Disaster That Are Microsoft's Piracy-Free Video Services?

In the past, the Broadcast Yourself slogan, which is intimately connected with the online video service YouTube, has been consistently abused by users uploading content indiscriminately and with no concerns as to the owners of the video materials. This trend was, of course, an illustration of the overall relaxed copy...

16 October 2007
07:35 GMT

Will Microsoft's New Video Website Kill YouTube?

Google's YouTube is currently dominating the market of online video. But YouTube was the apex of the top online video properties, long before the Mountain View search giant paid no less than $1.5 billion in order to take it under the Google brand umbrella. Still, a new move by Microsoft is designed to challenge ...

26 September 2007
09:04 GMT

Microsoft Killed Its YouTube Clone

Microsoft has killed its YouTube clone. Soapbox on MSN Video, introduced at the end of 2006 as a potential YouTube killer, did not live to see its first year on the market and now is no more. But the Redmond company is by no means accepting the failure of Soapbox, and instead delivered an explanation revealing that i...

24 September 2007
07:02 GMT

Zero Piracy Makes Microsoft the Bottom Feeder of the Online Video Market

In a move designed to be a repeat of the MSN vs. Live Search scenario, Microsoft also offers two locations for users to access online videos: MSN Video and Soapbox on MSN Video. It seems that with the Redmond company, bigger is indeed better, speaking from the perspective of multiple services delivering basically the...

13 September 2007
03:27 GMT

The Slow and Anonymous Death of Microsoft Online Video Services

The viral video market is just another facet of Microsoft's failure to establish a strong Internet presence, after the company's efforts in the search field. However, while on the search engine market, Microsoft is now a traditional occupant of the number three position behind Google and Yahoo, when it come...

28 June 2007
05:26 GMT


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