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Q and A with Ballmer Discussing Bing

11 points by robg 17y ago

adamhowell 17y ago
With some of the Live stuff it -- for a short time at least -- seemed like Microsoft was finally starting to realize that the web is different than packaged software, and that instead of hyping a product like this while it's still "Coming soon," you should launch small and iterate. When you buy a pre-marketed Office 20XX, you're stuck with Office 20XX -- when you try out a hyped up Cui...I mean Bing, you laugh and search Google to see if anybody's ridiculed it yet. But, I guess since the Live stuff failed so badly that they have to continue working on stuff like Bing and buying companies like Powerset, they've decided to blame the process and go back to their tried and true web mantra of "promise veal, deliver a poop sandwich".
- sahaj 17y ago
  because of the slow economy and less people purchasing new computers, microsoft is gonna have a very hard time pushing this to users, as it is a not default search engine of a default bundled browser.
brown9-2 17y ago
I'm waiting for the point where Microsoft realizes that by continually playing catch-up in things like "search", they're doing nothing but burning tons of cash and getting no where fast. Are the ad profits really that lucrative? Because from the outside it sounds like they waste a lot of time/money/effort on projects like this that are always destined to fail.
- pj 17y ago
  I'm not sure it is destined to fail. Do you think search can't be done better than Google can do it? I am certain it can.
  - adamhowell 17y ago
    I'm certain a better search won't come from a top-down corporation like Microsoft.
TweedHeads 17y ago
babble, rabble, optimism, babble, super interesting, rabble, babble, opportunity, wabble, innovation... wait, he said innovation? he got me there for a moment, hahaha
malvim 17y ago
Sorry, I haven't read TFA, and I don't know what Bing is about. It might even be something worth taking a look at. Maybe. But seriously... Bing? BING? Come on, they can do better than that. "It's Gaelic for 'thy turkey is done'"

11 points by robg 17y ago

With some of the Live stuff it -- for a short time at least -- seemed like Microsoft was finally starting to realize that the web is different than packaged software, and that instead of hyping a product like this while it's still "Coming soon," you should launch small and iterate. When you buy a pre-marketed Office 20XX, you're stuck with Office 20XX -- when you try out a hyped up Cui...I mean Bing, you laugh and search Google to see if anybody's ridiculed it yet. But, I guess since the Live stuff failed so badly that they have to continue working on stuff like Bing and buying companies like Powerset, they've decided to blame the process and go back to their tried and true web mantra of "promise veal, deliver a poop sandwich".

sahaj 17y ago
because of the slow economy and less people purchasing new computers, microsoft is gonna have a very hard time pushing this to users, as it is a not default search engine of a default bundled browser.

brown9-2 17y ago

I'm waiting for the point where Microsoft realizes that by continually playing catch-up in things like "search", they're doing nothing but burning tons of cash and getting no where fast. Are the ad profits really that lucrative? Because from the outside it sounds like they waste a lot of time/money/effort on projects like this that are always destined to fail.

pj 17y ago
I'm not sure it is destined to fail. Do you think search can't be done better than Google can do it? I am certain it can.
- adamhowell 17y ago
  I'm certain a better search won't come from a top-down corporation like Microsoft.

TweedHeads 17y ago

babble, rabble, optimism, babble, super interesting, rabble, babble, opportunity, wabble, innovation... wait, he said innovation? he got me there for a moment, hahaha

malvim 17y ago

Sorry, I haven't read TFA, and I don't know what Bing is about. It might even be something worth taking a look at. Maybe. But seriously... Bing? BING? Come on, they can do better than that. "It's Gaelic for 'thy turkey is done'"