The insanely boring life…

Windows Live is the new concept by Microsoft. I think they are trying to immetate google, personally. With the personilized google home page and now this (which is basically the same thing) product from microsoft.

Windows Live (which is still in beta) inclused the following features (quoted from the “Live” site)

Windows Live
Have your way with this page. Sign in, get the content you want—news, sports, search results, whatever—add columns, and move stuff around at will. It’s all you.

Windows Live Mail
It’s all-new Web mail, built from the ground up. Preview your e-mail without loading a new page each time (like Outlook®) drag and drop messages into folders, and generally power through your e-mail in a flash.

Windows Live Safety Center
It’s like taking your PC in for a tune up at the service station. If the service station was free and available 24/7. Get free on-demand virus cleaning and a comprehensive PC health checkup to help keep your PC running its best.

Windows Live Favorites
You are away from your own computer and want to get to the important sites you use everyday? No problem, now that your Internet Explorer Favorites can travel with you.

Windows Live Messenger
(coming soon) This will be the next-generation MSN Messenger. The name is new, but it will still be free to download Messenger and use most of its features. And there will be some remarkable new ways to instantly share and connect with friends.

Windows OneCare Live
(coming soon) The things you should have to help protect your PC, but probably don’t because they’re such a hassle. Stuff like virus scanning, firewall settings, tune ups, and software backups—tied up with a bow and delivered to you in a friendly, easy-to-use package that runs quietly in the background.

Windows Live Search
The things you should have to help protect your PC, but probably don’t because they’re such a hassle. Stuff like virus scanning, firewall settings, tune ups, and software backups—tied up with a bow and delivered to you in a friendly, easy-to-use package that runs quietly in the background.

Now, according to the site, this is the defenition of Windows Live:

Your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. That’s the basic idea behind Windows Live. So the things you care about - your friends, the latest information, your e-mails, powerful search, your PC files, everything – comes together in one place. This is a brand new Internet experience designed to put you in control. And this is just the beginning – you’ll see many more new services in the coming months.

This, people, is the first step to global computing. Why? Because the industry is realising that in order for everything to come together in perfect harmony, it must be centrilized. The web is the perfect medium for doing so because everything on the web can be shared and is availible for anyone.

Now, imagine this:

You are not in the mood to go to work today, so you send an email from your cell to your boss informing him you will be working from home today. No problem, because of the new services becoming availible, your entire office will be on the web. So, you go online, log into your Office with Microsoft Office Online and there you see all your latest documents you are working on. Your databaes; your graphic designs, everything.
Need to share a document, just type in the email address of the person who can view the document, and it will be made availible for both of you to edit at the same time even though you are on different sides of the world.

Now, we go a step further. Google releases a service where you can have 1000 Gig of space and your entire computer is then moved to their server, meaning the only thing you will have on your PC is your browser, which is specifically developed to already have their static stuff loaded on your OC, meaning then that even if you don’t have a high speed internet access, you can still use their cervice with ease.
You log into your account, and voilla! There is everything you will need. Google OS which you work through your browser. You can share anything, and seamless Google adds pay for everything. Now, you want to listen to some music, you go to Google Music section on your “OS” and you can listen toany song you want for free. Why, because the adds pay.

Your entire life can be there. That can be your home page which any person will be able to access because of permissions you can set, meaning you will have a home page for your friends, another one for colleuges and another one for family, depending who is surfing.

So, if you can’t see all this by 2010, at the latest, then open your eyes. Do one google search and you will see we are closer to localised and shared computing then you may think.