Wouldn't it be a great idea if Microsoft made a YouTube competitor - General

Microsoft is like Google big, from cloud storage to services and their very own search engine called Bing. With WP8.1 they also introduce Cortana just like Google Now but why exactly haven't they thought about making there own YouTube and bring some fresh competition to video services? Microsoft has the ability and money to do something like this, and i wouldn't find it a bad idea. With your Microsoft account you would sign in on everything that MS offers. What does Facepunch think about this approach? would it be something Microsoft should focus on next?

bing is bad enough, please don't let them copy more google services.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44442977]bing is bad enough, please don't let them copy more google services.[/QUOTE] There would be no harm in more competition though Youtube is dreadful sometimes but because it has no strong competition we're forced to use it/they're not forced to improve their services.

It depends, if it works, is not cram packed with ads, and is good quality, then it wouldnt be bad. even then it would give google a kick to actually make youtube better for US

Wouldn't it be a great idea if Microsoft made a Steam competitor? Oh wait ...

They would call it "Videos for Windows Live" and it would be terrible.

Please no. It'd probably be worse and have a price tag attached to it somehow.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44442977]bing is bad enough, please don't let them copy more google services.[/QUOTE] The more options that exist, (generally) the better for the end users. I flat out stopped going to YouTube (still watch the occasional embedded video) since their acquisition. It's become the next Google Videos, which ironically was failing (not sure if it really was, no one actually used GV) and the reason why they bought YT to begin with. It would be great if something could actually dethrone YouTube, but knowing MS, it's just not going to happen.

I don't think MS could pull off an actually decent competitor. That said, if they did try it couldn't hurt at all. They have the funds and resources to pull it off and a strong Youtube competitor would be a good thing regardless.

No, if there's a service I wanted to succeed I wouldn't want it to be run by a company that couldn't innovate it's way out of a paper bag. I'd be much more interested in Google just not breaking youtube every few weeks.

No.

No, it really wouldn't..

Only if it supports 60 FPS playback without stuttering all to hell, FINALLY (looking at you, DailyMotion).

Don't give them ideas....

I agree Microsoft should get a bigger eco-system, but they need to fix stuff like bing and windows phone(which have the ugliest layout). So i think they might a bit too busy

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44442977]bing is bad enough, please don't let them copy more google services.[/QUOTE] how i'm thinking about it is if Microsoft made a YouTube competitor then i'm probably not going to use it, but it'll give Google an incentive to improve Youtube. i mean a lot of people stood by Steam when Origin came out but you can't deny it's solid competition, and might give Steam more motivation to improve. just replace "Steam" with Youtube and "Origin" with Microsoft's YouTube competitor. but more realistically is whatever Microsoft or anybody else makes that competes with YouTube will most likely never be as widely used and popular as YouTube; it's a part of everyone's daily life now, i'm not trying to speak for everyone here but most of the time the average person wouldn't say "let's find X video on the internet" you say "let's find X video on YouTube"

If they did make it you'd have to pay 15$/20$ to watch a video, then there'd be a videos for gold system that lets you watch one video for free each month

[QUOTE=Ashes;44456993]If they did make it you'd have to pay 15$/20$ to watch a video, then there'd be a videos for gold system that lets you watch one video for free each month[/QUOTE] but how would doing something like that be to Microsoft's benefit? they probably could get away for doing that on Xbox because there's some people who'll buy it no matter what Microsoft does to it but the same can't be said for something totally new. besides that this was probably a joke comment so i don't know why i replied

[QUOTE=Octopod;44457019]but how would doing something like that be to Microsoft's benefit? they probably could get away for doing that on Xbox because there's some people who'll buy it no matter what Microsoft does to it but the same can't be said for something totally new. besides that this was probably a joke comment so i don't know why i replied[/QUOTE] that's ok in all seriousness i wouldn't look forward to a youtube competitor from microsoft, they'd probably just take youtube and put a UI on it like whats on the xbox one with a bunch of useless features, unless i'm missing what would be good from it

[QUOTE=Ashes;44457097]that's ok in all seriousness i wouldn't look forward to a youtube competitor from microsoft, they'd probably just take youtube and put a UI on it like whats on the xbox one with a bunch of useless features, unless i'm missing what would be good from it[/QUOTE] Microsoft: We're going to provide a unified experience across all devices! Later... PC Users: WHY IS THIS PRETENDING TO BE A TOUCH SCREEN!?

Yahoo is doing this.

A competitor is always a good thing, but Microsoft would do it badly, offer an inferior service, and be so laughable in trying to get people to use it that nobody would use it in the first place, making it a waste of time and money and effort.