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Mike / CrunchNotes:
Microsoft Live Event - My Real Time Notes — UPDATE: My Windows Live full profile is up on TechCrunch. — Well, it's started. I'm sitting about 20 feet from Bill Gates, who's speaking now. Next to Niall Kennedy. Dave Winer, Steve Gillmor and Dan Farber are at the table next to me.
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Dan Farber / ZDNet:
Gates introduces Microsoft bet on 'live software' — In opening the event today, Bill Gates said that every five years Microsoft looks at its strategy and makes big bets-1990 was Windows, the Web in 1995 and Web Services .Net in 2000. The next big bet, Gates said, is delivering new type of software experience, called "live software."
Michael Gartenberg:
Window Live and Office Live - First Take — We spent a lot of time with Microsoft talking about this over the last few months and today, it's all been revealed. Microsoft announced a new series of online services today, called Office Live and Windows Live.
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Live Software — I'm at a Microsoft press event in San Francisco to introduce the concept of "Live Software." The big takeaway: Microsoft is fully engaged with thinking about what I've called "Web 2.0." They are focused on the internet as the platform, on software as a service …
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Scobleizer
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Windows Live - More than an AJAX Desktop — I blogged my raw notes on CrunchNotes real time from the Windows Live announcement presentation earlier today. One of the two major announcements was Windows Live (best viewed on IE of course). Office Live was also announced, which I will be writing about later tonight.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Gates: We're entering 'live era' of software — update SAN FRANCISCO—Kicking off what he called the "live era" of software, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the company plans to launch new Internet-based complements to its core products. — Gates said Microsoft is working …
Todd Bishop / SeattlePI.com Microsoft Blog:
Posting from San Francisco — I'm down here at San Francisco's Palace Hotel this morning, where Bill Gates and Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie are expected to disclose new details of Microsoft's online services strategy. — The company has been unusually secretive leading up to the event …
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Between the Lines, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Neowin.net, Paul Mooney and Today @ PC World
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:WHAT "LIVE" IS — Microsoft rightly launched the Office …
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Signal vs. Noise, Scobleizer, ComputerZen.com, Between the Lines and Life On the Wicked Stage
Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:Microsoft Announces The Live Era
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Addicted to Digital Media
Danny O'Brien / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Halloween on the Hill … - The Crypt, Disney's The Haunted Mansion — Halloween is traditionally the time when the undead walk; preposterous monstrosities that no-one could imagine living stumble and moan through the land. — So guess what the entertainment industry decided to dust off …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Hollywood after the Anal. Hole again — Hollywood has fielded a shockingly ambitious piece of "Analog Hole" legislation while everyone was out partying in costume. Under a new proposed Analog Hole bill, it will be illegal to make anything capable of digitizing video unless it either …
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Legislating IP
Fred / A VC:
The Looming Attention Crisis — Umair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week. — Umair said: … So I went to Wikipedia and looked up Herbert Simon and found out that he was a cognitive psychologist …
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Ross Mayfield / Ross Mayfield's Weblog:
Turn on a Dime — Tomorrow Bill Gates (convicted monopolist) and Ray Ozzie (respect) are expected to announce the third coming of Microsoft. Just as they turned a massive organization on a dime to embrace the Internet, they will break with the past to offer software as a service.
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Keep Trying, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Mark Evans, The Kelsey Group and Microsoft Weblog
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Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
DRM Crippled CD: A bizarre tale in 4 parts — DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Ever come across something that only gets stranger and stranger the deeper you delve into it? That was my experience when I almost purchased a new CD — a DRM crippled CD — this weekend.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Paul Kedrosky's …, Venture Chronicles, Boing Boing and Voidstar
MSNBC:
Coming soon, Nightly News, free and online — Next week, America's No. 1 newscast will stream worldwide after it airs — NBC News announced Monday that "NBC Nightly News" will soon become the first and only network newscast to be offered free on the Internet in its entirety.
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Garett Rogers / ZDNet:
Google: Thinking about the future of TV ads — The New York Times published an interesting article yesterday that gives some insight into how Google operates and what may be coming in the advertising arena. I was particularly intrigued by the mention of television ads …
Reuters:
Top US cable co's land Sprint Nextel deal-source — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three top U.S. cable operators on Monday reached a deal to resell wireless phone services with Sprint Nextel <S.N> to compete against telephone operators entering the video market, sources familiar with the situation said.
