We’ve just announced the birth of a new online store!
“Microsoft Store will initially launch with a range of software products, including Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Works and Expression. Over time, the available portfolio will expand to include a broad range of Microsoft’s consumer products.”
Today’s launch in the UK and Germany represent the first step in a global rollout. Further international sites will rollout during 2008 and throughout 2009.
Hopefully soon we’ll see Xbox stuff, Zunes and maybe even a Surface Table too!
Today, Microsoft announces the launch of a new brand - Microsoft Advertising
In response to customers needs, we’re in a position to bring all our solutions for both advertisers and publishers under one coherent banner.
The aim is to help advertisers and publishers build stronger consumer engagement in the digital space.
It’s all about bringing our online advertising assets together and providing customers with Insight, Performance & Expertise!
We’re super-pleased with this move. We’ve had some flak over the “MDAS mouthful” and even more about a perceived inability to provide brand-clarity in general.
I hope this sets the record straight and provides consumers and marketers with a no-nonsense message, that we mean business in the digital advertising space.
At the Live Search Symposium a couple of weeks ago questions about where Photosynth had gone were plentiful. I guess the fact we’d made a noise about it 18 months ago and folks haven’t seen anything since has made people think it’s not going to happen.
Far from it!!
As you can see from the Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia site, the technology has been combined with Silverlight to showcase bits and pieces from the bygone age of rock, making it super-easy to navigate the pieces and read associated trivia and history about them.
Here I’m using mouse controls to zoom in on some gushing scribblings about Phil Spector that John Lennon wrote in a letter years back.
Closer…
Closer…
As the commentary says - "Perhaps Spector should’ve called this piece as a character witness at his murder trial!"
