Sunday, November 06, 2005

What Exactly Does All That Gobbledygook Mean?

A good friend asked me yesterday what exactly MS meant with all this brouhaha about "web services".

Journalism is a cruel sport, but it does have its pleasures. One of them is watching elephants trying to dance. Such a spectacle was on offer last Tuesday in San Francisco, when a team of senior Microsofties led by Chairman Bill astonished an audience of journalists by announcing that the company planned to launch not one but two web-services operations - dubbed 'Windows Live' and 'Microsoft Office Live'.

I tried to explain but didn't do half as good a job as
John Naughton did in The Observer today.

Nov 12, 2005 Update

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