Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

re: Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

Alimaggs — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:14:29 GMT

Good to know. I went out and bought the VOIP phones (Phillips Live Messenger), but here in the UK at least, they dropped being able to charge up using Mastercard and Visa leaving only American Express and Diner Card which very few people in the UK actually have. So it's been a bit of a dead service for me.

Hopefully, whatever takes its place will be more readily available.

re: Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

Chris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:12:10 GMT

Alimaggs: Yes they do, we've got a post coming up on that hopefully this weekend (or when I find time!)

re: Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

Alimaggs — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:45:29 GMT

Shame really. Any idea on what's going all with the VOIP features of Messenger these days? Verizon drops out soon don't they?

re: Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

quikboy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:05:10 GMT

Oh, and MSN WiFi Hotspots is dead by the way.

http://hotspot.msn.com/

It conveniently redirects you to Jiwire, a much better service. They even use Virtual Earth.

re: Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

ChaosAngelic — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:51:35 GMT

This is getting annoying... I was really waiting for this one to come out. It gets really annoying when you're watching a movie in Media Center and someone sends you an IM. This type of thing could easily fix that... well, the 360 has WLM functionality, so I guess I'll be using mine more often.

re: Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

foaf — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:10:34 GMT

Only one I am fussed about is WL Messenger for Media Center. It's badly needed, and would be a USP over the competition from other IM apps.

re: Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

quikboy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:23:46 GMT

Another failure? At least they're working on throwing out throwing bad projects out the door, and hopefully management goes somewhere that's useful.

Besides, most Microsoft betas are a joke. In the end, they either:

a) Come out exactly the same as they were in beta - With only minor performance fixes or whatnot. No new requested features, removing things or whatever. Case in point : Toolbar, Live Gallery, Favorites, etc.

b) Come out completely different from their beta form - As in they weren't in the beta, but was added when it was released, making the beta completely useless. Case in point : MSN Video (Soapbox?), MSN Silverlight Toolbar, Live Search Shopping, Live Hotmail, Live Spaces, etc.

c) Get killed off - Live TV, Live Barcode, WiFi Center, etc.

Most betas are pointless. For some reason, I don't think MS always takes the feedback seriously. If they did, the A, B, and C shouldn't be happening. There's rarely ever any betas where user suggestions actually make it.

re: Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

PSCSmoke — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:30:42 GMT

MS shifted gears to U-Verse and the IPTV architecture of that project.

Lately there has been a wonderous clean-up of the sandbox, kinda like raking the old Zen meditation garden.

Stage 1 : delete projects that aren't on the cool list

Stage 2: ....

Stage 3: PROFIT!