(alleyinsider.com) -- This can't be true, can it? Can Microsoft really be running this far behind the train yet again? After 15 years of chasing Internet innovators, hasn't Microsoft learned that it can't do online what it did in the PC world (Crushing Netscape was the big exception, but that was 14 years ago now)?
Mary Jo Foley at ZDnet:
Microsoft is taking reservations starting April 28 for a limited beta of a new public-information service called Vine.
The service, slated to go to testers in May, uses alerts, reports and a personal dashboard to allow users to stay in touch, particularly during crisis situations.
The Vine service initially was developed by the Windows Live team, post Hurricane Katrina. I heard a bit about the service back in June 2008, after which the service — like a number of Windows Live properties — seemed to just disappear. It turns out the concept was passed over to Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie’s division and incubated like other technologies in Microsoft’s Start Up Business Accelerator group. “Eventually, products and services started in the accelerator will transition into one of Microsoft’s existing business divisions,” a spokesperson said.
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