Windows Live News
Sarah Perez on November 29th, 2005
Techcrunch posted a teaser about a new Windows Live service, code-named Fremont. But what is Fremont? Rumor has it that it’s Microsoft’s answer to Google Base, yet another Craigslist/Ebay wannabe. I have to be honest, I don’t get the Google Base thing yet. It seems to be superflous to what our needs are right now…which makes me wonder if it’s been put out there for beta testing before we get to what it’s real use will be: the database that hosts your Google Office files. C’mon. Google/Sun merger? Google hiring programmers to work on Open Office? You know it’s coming.
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Google’s merger with Sun will provide Google a way to incorporate their search tool into OpenOffice running off of Java from Sun. This could allow for office applications to be run from anywhere online and not requiring them to be installed.
So far I haven’t been that impressed with Windows Live. I just recently downloaded and installed OneCare, which is supposedly going to be a one stop spot for anti-virus, anti-spyware, optimization, backup, firewall, updates, etc. Here’s the review:
http://www.computers.net/2005/.....oneca.html