Microsoft: Facebook Home Is a Copycat, Windows Phone Is the 'Real Thing' 199
colinneagle writes "Frank X. Shaw, VP of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, did not seem happy about Facebook's Home announcement when he wrote, 'I tuned into the coverage of the Facebook Home event yesterday and actually had to check my calendar a few times. Not to see if it was still April Fools Day, but to see if it was somehow still 2011. Because the content of the presentation was remarkably similar to the launch event we did for Windows Phone two years ago.' Shaw also posted Microsoft's 'Put people first with Windows Phone 7.5' video before writing, 'We understand why Facebook would want to find a way to bring similar functionality to a platform that is sadly lacking it.'"
Re:because microsoft is always completely original (Score:4, Informative)
Of course, when running on Android, the user actually has the ability to *remove* the damn thing.
Somebody call the whaaaambulance! (Score:5, Informative)
Are they also upset that they invented the Tablet PC in 2002 and then Apple ate their lunch eight years later by actually delivering it in an appealing form factor that people actually wanted ? "Waaah, waaah, we were fiiiiirst!" Apple learned that "first" doesn't always equal success, but they quit whining about it and did something about it instead. Worked out pretty well for them.
Re:Children, children... (Score:2, Informative)
Steam requiring an always-on connection? Last time I checked my portfolio, few of them require a connection at all (ok, aside of getting the game in the first place, of course), and none require a connection throughout the period you're playing. Unless of course it's a multiplayer game that obviously needs a connection with the other players...
Re:Children, children... (Score:5, Informative)
You really think MS's marketing campaigns have led it to success?
MS was successful because they were in the right place at the right time by providing the OS to IBM's PC, whose open architecture made it popular for cloning, and because of this popularity tons of application software ran on top of it. Of course a bunch of dirty tricks to ruin competitors didn't hurt, plus they made/bought out some office software which became the business standards. There weren't any advertising campaigns, ever, that helped them in these endeavors.