Microsoft or the Windows 8 operating system to clear the field

The industry is hot on Google's acquisition of Motorola. On this day, Microsoft quietly announced that one year later, Microsoft will no longer provide download services for the e-book reader Microsoft Reader.

& ldquo; Microsoft has such a product you & rdquo;? User response has been very interesting. It's not hard to understand that Microsoft Reader has been so obscured shortly after its launch. Nothing is more sad than this. —— A product is known for its death. Microsoft Reader is on this path.



Microsoft Reader Ship Even Sank


Microsoft love to do some thankless job.

when people on the Tablet PC also scanty, Microsoft launched the Tablet PC, but unexpectedly become Apple's paving stones; when Amazon still in business e-commerce, e-book market, Microsoft has begun to work, but obliterate natural products Everyone is jealous.

In 2000, Microsoft launched e-reader Microsoft Reader, for reading e-books on the LCD screen. At the time, Adobe Acrobat defeated other competing products and gradually became the standard format of the e-book market. At the same time, a number of new competitors began to emerge. They have launched other PDF-related software, including Ghostscript, Foxit and Nitro PDF. Microsoft Reader is one of the strongest competitors of Adobe Acrobat, and its files are in LIT format.

Microsoft Reader after the launch, Microsoft has become to promote reading software & mdash; & mdash; users can purchase e-books in Microsoft's online bookstore, and then use Microsoft Reader to read or download e-books onto handheld computers Read using the Microsoft Reader software for your handheld.

If you first open Microsoft Reader, you will see a list of books in a row, the list called Library. In the process of reading an e-book, if the user wants to select another book, just click the Library button to return to the book list. After that, you will see the cover of a book. The cover has pictures, and there are links that allow the reader to jump to any page and focus on the current reading progress.

& ldquo; information on Microsoft Reader allows you to use your Pocket PC to read, but also will have similar titles automatically recommend to your personal library. & rdquo; In 2001, a US netizen wrote down his experience after using it.

accustomed to paying subscribers of US Internet users in terms of electronic newspaper, which reproduce the state of the electronic newspaper printing, it is fully integrated with the IT nostalgic fashion, while China blog were published after the first to experience The commentary believes that such an electronic newspaper represents a purely reading concept. Opening the software and reading the newspaper becomes the only theme.

course, some people think that software newspaper, the lack of a paper newspaper reading experience, but this software is also a lack of the most popular interactive concept of Web 2.0.

for the first time, relying on Microsoft's brand influence, Microsoft Reader and Adobe Acrobat are evenly matched, and extends to the battlefield represented by Microsoft's platform. However, the good times did not last long. In the subsequent development, the market became increasingly indifferent to Microsoft Reader, and its LIT format files were not welcomed by users.

Microsoft Reader mainly for traditional PC and Tablet PC Windows system. In 2005, in order to attract more users, Microsoft Reader launched a new version compatible with Windows Mobile 6.1. Despite the tricks, Microsoft Reader still failed to turn the salty fish and gradually faded out of sight.

for Microsoft Reader, this type of development path it does not seem difficult to understand. The reason why users don't like it is that many LIT e-books are only available in declining e-book app stores, such as ebooks.com and Fictionwise. In addition, LIT e-books are mostly not best-selling books. This is a fatal point, no content, users install what it do

12-year-old fade


& ldquo;? In 2000, iPhone has not yet launched, Facebook has not On the line, MySpace is still not popular, and the 9/11 incident has not happened yet. This year, Microsoft introduced the e-reader Microsoft Reader. As a digital reader running on a traditional PC, Microsoft extends it to Windows Mobile and UMPC. But unfortunately, Microsoft readers have ignored this software giant for a long time. ” American commentator Jeff · Duncan commented. In his view, in the 1990s and early 2000s, only one specialized software company could produce high-quality operating systems and reliable services, so Microsoft could “everywhere”, but at this time, many hardware Manufacturers began software development, and software development business began to manufacture hardware, which made Microsoft extremely uncomfortable.

2007, entered the Amazon Kindle e-book market. The concept of software e-reading has gradually been replaced by hardware e-readers such as Kindle and Nook. While competing with other e-reader manufacturers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Microsoft's flat e-book market is also being eaten by Apple's iPad. Through tight integration with iOS apps, the iPad offers users a rich e-book service that is far more functional than Microsoft Reader.

Although Apple has a very strict policy in iOS applications, but this did not affect the influx of the industry's major partners. The iPad has become the platform with the most available books available.

Microsoft Reader dilemma worse.

With the rise of BlackBerry, iPhone and Android phones, Microsoft Reader with the Windows Mobile platform fade out of sight together. Microsoft had to kill it.

after August 30, 2012, Microsoft will no longer provide Microsoft Reader download service, which corresponds to LIT format also at November 8 this year in the app store shelf.

e-book market finally took off, Microsoft has missed the opportunity to return to the starting point of the game. This starting point is an extremely dangerous location. As a traditional computer software giant that gradually loses its voice, Microsoft needs to develop other Windows devices and develop more hardware. However, based on some bad records before Microsoft, many people are not optimistic.

paving the way for the Windows 8


for reasons that will stop the Microsoft Reader download service, Microsoft did not disclose. Jeff · Duncan believes that there is no reason for Microsoft to stop Microsoft Reader, but the trend seems clear: Amazon has been quite successful in the e-book market, while competition between Amazon, Sony and other e-reader vendors has become increasingly fierce. In March 2010, Apple provided more than 30,000 copies of Project Gutenberg free books to enrich the contents of the iBook Store. Coupled with the apples with a fairly complete ecosystem, this market is fierce.
In the e-book market, Microsoft's ecosystem is not perfect —— in fact, it only has Microsoft Reader, an e-reading software and an online library. Under such an ecosystem, users want to embrace the Windows platform and Microsoft Reader is not an easy task. Microsoft hopes that its e-book market will grow, especially on the Windows Phone platform and Windows 8, but it seems unlikely, so Microsoft must develop a solution for the Microsoft platform.

Earlier this year, news about Windows 8 continues to spread. It is rumored that Windows 8 has many changes compared to previous products. — Users can configure their own platform, use cloud applications, share applications and services, and hide the taskbar on the right side of the screen. Regardless of the true nature of the rumors, there is no doubt that Microsoft wants to return to the tablet market with the Windows 8 system. Although Microsoft has not stated whether it plans to launch similar tools on Windows 8, the timely exit of Microsoft Reader clearly leaves room for this conjecture. — Microsoft may develop a new e-book reader or tablet device.

In fact, that argument as early as June this year, has spread during the secret talks between Microsoft and Texas Instruments. Microsoft is likely to do this. After all, the e-book market is still growing rapidly.

If Microsoft released e-book reader is a built-in features, such as a photo viewer, users will use a lot of Windows 8, because the need to download, install this process, users found it convenient.

Microsoft to stop this outdated Microsoft Reader software download service, but it is still there is an electronic library. E-books are a thriving industry, and Microsoft has more reasons to enter than ever before. Today, Microsoft Reader has been eliminated, and maybe tomorrow, similar applications will be popular in other places.

Microsoft promises to make Windows 8 operating system interface more friendly, maybe, we can expect the emergence of e-books a Windows 8 client.