We'll Need a Diagram for that Section...

D'Arcy Norman points to this photo by Niall Kennedy:

Is that a model or a mess?

What is even worse about this whole "Live" thing -- "Goodnight Tor-ON-TOE!, Thank U!" -- is that it would seem to be nothing more than an omnibus re-branding of a bunch of stuff that already exists along with an Ultra-lite version of Groove.net that will be called Office Live... And Office Live will be available "real soon now". What about the absurd duplication of content between start.com and live.com?

Why did this announcement have to be made now? With no serious product to launch it seems like committee-think in the extreme. What's worse is that the MS big-wigs had to stand in front of slides like these and try to spin a tale.