Video clips now playing in Messenger
13 May 2008 | 09:04 BST
And the people cheered and God shuffled his feet
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft has launched a service on its Windows Live Messenger that will allow punters to watch videos with their mates online and chat about it all the way through the movie.
Dubbed Messenger TV, Vole will offer mostly music videos from the likes of file-sharing friend and maker of DRM Sony BMG.
Microsoft’s cunning plan is that punters will "create a whole new social experience" by watching clips at the same time as their mates.
John Mangelaars, the vice-president, EMEA, of consumer and online for Microsoft said it was a fairly obvious mix. Social networks have done well, so has online video, so why not put them all together?
He claims that it will be a social experience, as people watch videos together, make comments and share reactions. So next time some idiot in a cinema talks loudly during the quiet bits, it's not annoying, it's a social experience.
The service will launch in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada and Mexico, most of the EU, but not the United States where people have guns. µ
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