Microsoft to create its own iLife-style suite?

[Thank The Cheese]

problem with movie maker though is that you can't export DV. Or did that fix that larter? When I tried it years and years ago I could only export as WMV.

[Shookster]

Originally Posted by symphonix

I'm not saying Apple were the first on the scene with their iLife applications. I used Acid-Pro back in the mid-nineties. I'm just saying that I'm pretty confident that Microsoft's take on the problem will be poorly designed, annoying to use and ultimately doomed to be a mediocre and unimportant little application that everyone will have forgotten about in a few years from now.

It will be poorly designed, yet Windows users will love it and think it is completely original.

Btw, it probably would have helped if I had linked to the original article I read, rather than a different one

Microsoft is said to be developing a competing product to Apple's GarageBand, code-named "Monaco". According to Microsoft Watch, the software is "very similar" to Apple's entry-level music creation application, and will be optimised for Vista and its OS X-like "Aero" user interface.

In fact, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant may plan a full onslaught against Apple's iLife with a digital lifestyle package of its own, the report hints. This news is bolstered by rumors that the company is also developing its own image-sharing application under the code-named "Max".

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1665