Spending money like it was burning a hole in its pocket yesterday
Microsoft announced the acquisition of both Apptimum
and Onfolio.
Apptimum was a company that specialized in application
migration. This product should complement well the existing Microsoft migration
product User State Migration Tool (USMT) which is designed to migrate user
settings and data. This newly acquired Microsoft
product won’t ship with Windows Vista but instead will be made available as an
optional download. I think that is the
only thing they could have done with an acquisition this late in the Windows
Vista development cycle.
The other pick up was Onfolio. Onfolio is/was a toolbar for
Internet Explorer that allows you to collect, organize and share online
content. The technology from Onfolio was
incorporated into the Windows Live toolbar which should be available today from http://ideas.live.com
Do you think this spending spree continue? Who
will be next? While they have the check book open should they be looking at
getting some these “Web 2.0” apps to compliment the “Live” initiative? If so, which ones would you like to see them get?
Posted
Mar 08 2006, 07:05 AM
by
Josh Phillips
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