Microsoft restarts LiveServer Thursday, April 24 2008
Microsoft installed a new software in Liveserver and restarted. As I have already told that Microsoft doing very good job in Live services. Rather than talking about Mesh features, I like to talk what it doesn't do, How MS could improve it.
* iPod/iPhone: How many iPods/iPhones sold in the past few years? more than 120M. How many songs has been purchased and used in iPods? It should more than one Billion. These users can't get full fledged features of Mesh. I think, MS should have partnership with Apple.
* No Linux support: ok. It make sense, Linux desktop has 1% market share. But Google will be supporting/promoting it (I like you google in this matter).
* The most important things are trust, privacy and copyright. How much a user trusts Microsoft?. If I compare with other internet companies like yahoo,Google, Amazon etc. Microsoft has 1000% more trust. why? 30 years of history. Secondly Privacy, I am not sure how Microsoft follows privacy practices of each country, right now Mesh available only within US. Thirdly Copyright, The foremost thing user try to do is sharing songs/Movies. how MS going to protect copyright law?
* Security: Users can password protect files, right now shared folder can be deleted by any users(if the file exists only on the Live Desktop) the file will be permanently deleted, No Granular Controls. No Built-in encryption. I hope that they will add in beta version.
* Remote Desktop is not compatible with Firefox browsers, Microsoft why don't you like firefox? Are you making any money out of IE? (Available in the next version?)
