Web Browsers, Search Engines and now Blogs… Microsoft does it again

Microsoft is known more for their late arrivals in the fields of technology than for innovations. Most of the fields they are now leading or competing are where they entered late. Internet and Web Browsers was one field when they entered too late but well, they shattered all the competition and still hold most of the market at the moment. Search engines were next… Yahoo! was doing well until Google entered the scene and blasted everything else. Microsoft got a wakeup call and they are still working on it. No where near at the moment though.

And latest is the Blogging scene. Microsoft noticed it pretty darn late. Google took the lead here too when it acquired Blogger.com. With this single acquisition it literally got hold of the biggest network of Blogs online which is growing day by day! To get a network as big as Blogger would take years. And Microsoft as usual lost the initiative here too…

Only recently we saw it launching Blogs on its MSDN site. And then it launched the IEBlog. And now the latest news is that Microsoft is launching its blogging services through MSN in Japan. Not the United States but the East Asia. The reason being, Japan has a high density of wirelessly connected users which Microsoft want to tap. Plus the blogging has still not reached the crazy levels that they have reached in the America and Europe. Good step. Now we will have to see how well applied technology MSN has for its users in Japan! While we wait for our turn in the coming months. I would love to see how well/slow the Blogs on ASPX technology run. The Blogs on MSDN runs fine, but full blown service available to public will be a real test!