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Microsoft Live not yet ready for prime time? (Download Squad)

Nov 2nd 2005 8:49PM You have to do this product-release thing the Googley way or the Appley way: the Googley way is you release without any prior announcement, put the site/file up, mark it as beta and wait for the feedback. The beta tag is removed when the bug fixes/complaints slow to everyone's liking. The Appley way is you wait until the product is worthy of the black turtleneck, show it at a carefully orchestrated event preferrably at the end, as if the product were an afterthought , and parade a stream of celebrities who declare it the greatest thing they have ever used. Microsoft's problem is that they had a Googley product but had an Appley release party.