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 sof

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".