Comments on: Microsoft scales back its Live Labs effort

The group is being "restructured," with half the folks being sent to Microsoft's product teams. Gary Flake, hired away from Yahoo three years ago, will remain head.

[pbarnes7]

Any word on which projects they're going to drop? For example, I was pretty pleased with their Live Mesh project, and I use it regularly. If that's going down the toilet, I'll switch to DropBox now!

Thanks for the news.

[CTO_Dude]

Live Mesh is not a part of Live Labs as per some friends inside MS. There was an update to Mesh a few weeks ago.

[BogusBasin]

Microsoft should close down and give the money back to the shareholders. Amen

[monkeyfun14]

This guy should be banned from this site scanning ms articles and posting the same sentence someone skeptical would think that he is a bot.

[JCPayne]

Hey Microsoft new slogan.... "The world is just not cool enough to use Windows Live"....

haha

[TigaAyes]

If IBM doesn't get Sun then I wonder if it might make a bid for Microsoft

Given that IBM effectively created MS in 1980 by selecting the latter's offering as the operating system for its then revolutionary open-architecture PC, a takeover in 2010 would create a fitting generational bookend decorated with a cruel twist of fate.

[TwoWolvesUK]

That seems to draw a line under "Microsoft not getting the internet". Bar the Mesh Project it might be best for everyone if they admitted defeat and started supporting other technologies instead of competing.