Windows Live Wave 4: Video
With a few more pieces of information coming out of Microsoft about Windows Live Wave 4, and in particular Movie Maker, I thought about what new services could be released and it dawned on me there is currently a missing service; Windows Live Videos. Obviously for the desktop there will be Movie Maker and then Photo Gallery can be used to view the videos, however there is no Live service to view or upload the videos too.
Is it possible?
I think it is very likely to happen seeing as Microsoft are getting rid of the video uploading service SoapBox very soon. I can’t see Microsoft putting all this effort into Movie Maker and make it so easy to upload the videos but then not allow their users to upload it to one of their own services.
The video service could also be linked to other video uploading services like YouTube and show other users in someone’s network what videos they have been uploading.
One final thing that adds credibility to my prediction is that Paul Thurott, in his review of Movie Maker, says:
One thing that’s missing, of course, is a way to post your video creations on a Microsoft service. Since Microsoft killed the Soapbox service, there’s been a void, and while the company has nothing to announce at this time, suffice to say they will be adding Windows Live-oriented publishing capability in the future.
I’m not sure if there is a great need for a video service especially seeing as Microsoft are pulling their current video service and because of the competition, but then I thought that of Windows Live Photos and now I use that all the time. I would like to know more about this and hope to see what Microsoft have got planned for a Windows Live Video service.
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