MS Takes On Personal Google

[Dougal]

Not sure if this should go somewhere else (feel free to move it)

http://www.start.com/3/

Take a look at that.

All I see is Personal Google with a skin

[Jonny]

Correction - 3 skins. (Granite, Ice AND Ocean!).

[skuzgib]

Errmm... your sig's rather large, Dougal.

[Stoo]

Not any more

[Jonny]

Lol it was funny though. But,yes, massive. Actually, I think mines getting a bit big. It was 96 px, I think, but now it has the text...

EDIT: Suppose the text can go, actually.... I don't think people really want to know If I'm doing a new sig or not...

[TiG]

hehe stoo,

But how slow does that page take to render compared to google?. Its slow as sin here, and thats the last thing i want for that type of service. I'm not sure but i feel MS's late entry into any arena simply gets a copycat effect of whatever is market leader.

Sure its MS's way but usually the products to watch for are ones when MS actually do some innovation its usually a damn good product....

TiG

[Spunkey]

is that an MS site? Its blocked by my webfilter at work under the category of 'Advertisement'

If it is MS

[Jonny]

Yes, it's an MS site. A rubbish one, at that.

[Dougal]

This is an mS site, but its their sandbox one. So its not a full server. I get it slower then google.

[IBM]

I used to work for a company in Leeds that tried to do something like that. The board of directors had no comprehension that 10+ active scripts all pulling in content were going to make a page slow. They'd sit there in the boardroom trying out the demo running straight from the server room next door going 'well it looks fast enough to me'....

I've just been reading Dilbert, and it so reminds me of working there....

[Twigman]

Well I like it...and it wasn't too slow for me.

[shiato storm]

MS should be taken down a notch by google if what they are trying to do is immitate them. utter pants. ms sees them having great ideas all the time but can't quite keep up...oops!

[Dougal]

MS should be taken down a notch by google if what they are trying to do is immitate them. utter pants. ms sees them having great ideas all the time but can't quite keep up...oops!

The reason is that Google started the trend for personal projects.

Every week (iirc thursday?) they have to spend one day on a personal project.