Mary Jo Foley reports on the people and projects Microsoft has aligned with its “Live” strategy. She says it looks to her like the “Microsoft Live’ brand will subsume the “runaway ‘Windows Live’ brand.” She points to a growing list of Live-branded projects that don’t use the word “Windows” including Live Maps, Live Search, Live Platform.
The development people who have been shuffled from Windows Live to Live Platform Services is long. While the Who’s Who is interesting enough, the list points to a bigger point … the breadth of projects Microsoft has in development right now under Live.
Online identify services, including projects to merge identity and directory services and presence.
Microsoft’s own datacenter services for consumers such as an advertising, payment, storage platforms and Xbox Live.
Even database stuff like P2P projects, synchronization and more.
That’s a whole lotta Live Microsoft has planned.
