A Windows to your Facebook world?
You may have been one of those who felt enthralled and delighted at Mark Zuckerberg's launch of Facebook Home yesterday.
You also may have felt appalled and slighted. Especially if you worked at Microsoft in 2011.
The morning after the morning before, Microsoft's forthright head of PR, Frank X. Shaw, offered words to suggest he'd have liked to X-out most of Zuckerberg's wide-eyed unveiling.
On the company's own blog, he wrote: "I tuned into the coverage of the Facebook Home event yesterday and actually had to check my calendar a few times. Not to see if it was still April Fools' Day, but to see if it was somehow still 2011."
You see, all that "putting people first" stuff that Zuckerberg so charmingly oozed yesterday seemed to resemble the exact strategy of Windows Phone.
Yes, of course, Microsoft had already thought about starting with people on your home screen, rather than chilly -- or even cuddly -- icons.
The company's fine engineers had even thought that it would be a spiritual experience if you could tap your own face to check into your mobile world.
Personally, I have to tap my own face just to check that I'm still alive mo... [Read more]
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