Silly Files: Microsoft Denies Using Home
Which seems less likely: that nobody at Microsoft has bothered to check out the competition by taking a look at PlayStation Home, or that Microsoft staffers were looking into Home as an alternative to holding virtual corporate meetings?
Well, thanks to reports that businesses are looking to save costs by holding virtual meetings (it's like 2006 all over again, but with overwhelming poverty!), Microsoft has now stepped forward and denied several silly things.
Silly thing the first: Microsoft denies using Home to hold virtual meetings. Stop the presses! From the horse's mouth:
"Microsoft will not be using Home as a tool for virtual meetings," a spokesperson said. "With fantastic Microsoft-developed products and applications like Live Meeting and even Xbox Live Party, we have everything we need to host a virtual meeting in-house."
That's like Pepsi denying that it prefers Coca-Cola. Pretty silly.
Silly thing the second: No console is an island. Microsoft's implication that the Xbox 360 succeeds independently from its competition is a bunch of funky hooey. With Avatars borrowed from the Wii, a redesign inspired by and competitive with the PS3's slick UI and burgeoning (but still relatively useless) community experiments inside the Home application, Microsoft can't be ignoring the competition. They may not be holding their own meetings inside Home, but they've definitely been exploring it.
Meanwhile, I'm left with a third silly thing: wishing the companies that make my consoles would focus more on games than on feature brinkmanship and bloatware escalation. Silly Tiny!
Microsoft refutes reports claiming it's using Home [Opposable Thumbs]
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Posted to Miscellany on 7 January 2009
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