Microsoft annonced today that it will close its Soapbox feature, which was apparently intended to compete with YouTube at some point or something. They’re not wasting any time about it either.
“We have decided to shut down the Soapbox feature,” said Microsoft Vice President and MSN leader Erik Jorgensen in an e-mail. “Beginning today, July 21, we will be notifying both our customers and our internal and external partners that on July 29th, people will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox and on August 31st, the service will no longer be available.”
Via Cnet.com
The dinosaur shudders again in its death throes.
I don’t have time for soapbox. I spend my free time downloading anti-virus software and updates. Fuckers.
In related news, apparently Microsoft had at some point created something called “Soapbox”
never heard of it.
they might look into doing something with pr0n.
i hear its quite popular.
I didn’t even know it existed.
I’m with Gitai. Did they ever market this at all?
Zuned again!
As with the above… never even heard of it.
Also having never heard of it, I think it’s a pity just because “soapbox” is such a better name for the kind of video people stick up on the internet than “youtube”.