Comments on: Microsoft Breaks Up Its Live Labs Group

By: Subhankar Ray

Subhankar Ray — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:00:50 +0000

It is good they are focusing on search. It is always hard to innovate with loud-speakers and bill boards around you with too much meta data about innovation.

By: osma

osma — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:54:37 +0000

I'm with jmdesp here. There's nothing better than having incumbents scale down innovation labs in a downturn and make room for the next round of start-ups ready to disrupt their business. That's what this is all about!

By: jmdesp

jmdesp — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:48:53 +0000

What's horrible ? We are at the time where big companies who have the power to kill crush newcomer start to do such mistake, and leave much more room for newcomers to become big enough to replace them; That's how IBM allowed Microsoft to make a dent in the software market at the end of the 70's until it was too late to stop them.

By: jenkins

jenkins — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:47:07 +0000

Gary Flake is very much part of the problem. He failed at yahoo and will fail at MSN.

By: nomnomnom

nomnomnom — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:21:19 +0000

live labs honcho gary flake and ray ozzie had a looooong chat at foo camp … heard it was at least partly about live labs' relationship with Ray's new pet, Startup labs, being run out of the fancy new 'vertical campus' in cambridge, ma.

By: Bullshit

Bullshit — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:00:11 +0000

What a ridiculously unfounded article: http://livelabs.com/blog/what-s-next-for-live-labs/

By: Alex Luft

Alex Luft — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:36:17 +0000

This is horrible. This is the time for these huge companies like Microsoft and Google to be investing in R&D. By the time we are out of this recession, it will give consumers a reason to buy/use these products. It's not like either of these companies don't have the cash reserves to keep the staff on board and take a quarter or two loss and have awesome products down the road, rather than making a profit but having no excitement or innovation within the company.