Should MS launch a Brand new youtube competitor? or buy Vimeo or Hulu

[anony_mouse]

Or how about announcing that "Microsoft Netflix is ending support for proprietary video standards and implementing WMV for standard video. Unfortunately, Google does not support WMV standards on Android, so Netflix will not work on Android until Google adds this to its proprietary video codec."

1. What is a 'proprietary video standard'?
2. Android supports H.264 and probably other video codecs. H.264 is not proprietary to Google. In fact, it's a genuine international standard, ratified by international standards organisations.
3. Why do you guys hate Android so much? It feels like it's some deep rooted personal thing, not just about technology.
4. Please explain what you mean by 'WMV standard'.

 

[ohgood]

No, YouTube is a service and a livelihood. Launching a competitor against YouTube, no matter how good it is, will not succeed.

smart !

Microsoft has hosting services/clouds already. they cannot compete with the entrenched, and internationally known YouTube.

a better question, though, is why should Microsoft care to compete with YouTube ?

I can't recall ever seeing a video posted with live.com, or whatever Microsoft is calling its cloud this week. really, I can't recall seeing a hosted file on Microsoft servers for anything, pictures, videos, audio files, render files, disk images, or anything.

they're an office suite/operating system company. trying to compete with Google in search, video hosting, mobile OS, and kind share just doesn't make sense.

 

[ajst222]

No I don't think that would be a good idea. YouTube absolutely OWNS the online video market. It would be like another Zune to compete with the iPod type of thing. No one would use it.

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