This morning Microsoft handed Reuters a press release outlining their new blog service to be released initially in Japan.
It seems there is little difference between this new publishing platform and already existing blog software like Squarespace and Blogger, but M$ wants to get their hands in everything:
“Microsoft just wants to get its fingers into every pie that it can. Today it’s blogging. Tomorrow it’ll be a search engine. Next week it’ll be jacket-powered palmtops or some such crap.”
—Slashdot Comment by Scowling
Microsoft has openly said Google is a competitor, so it makes sense that after Google acquired Blogger, Redmond would fire back with their own service.
Will this impact blogging in a positive way, or will this maybe-too-late entry into an over-saturated market fall by the wayside? Only time will tell.
