Microsoft applies lipstick to MSN butterfly With Windows Live and Bing, Microsoft's MSN butterfly has had its wings ripped from it in recent years MSN was once the flagship of Microsoft's online aspirations, led by the familiar butterfly logo introduced in 2000. The effort spanned search and advertising, Hotmail, Messenger, shopping, and maps, while serving content such …
Caught a bit of 'The Island' on TV the other day. Even with Scarlett Johansson, its a Michael Bay movie so not much worth watching, but the product placement was cringe-worthy bad. Obviously Microsoft had a part to play as there were adverts (made to look like scenes in a movie) for XBox and MSN.
Even though it was a 2005 movie, Microsoft were showing a future where people went to pay phone boxes (and supposedly paid) to use MSN search, complete with giant fluttering butterfly logo (Bay does not do subtle obviously, but the advertising was so in your face it distracted from Johansson).
So only 4 years ago, they couldn't see that MSN had no future? That to find information people would just borrow a Google or Apple smartphone rather than some MS video phone. So much for being innovators.
Some of us remember Bill Gates pushing the smart watches with 'SPOT" and have been around long enough to know that when trying to figure out where computing is going, don't bother trying to follow MS for a lead. They don't have a clue.
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