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Common Craft has produced a short explanatory video on Microsoft Live. The internet is starting to look like the desktop in the 80′s – numerous companies trying to mainstream new applications through a new centre. Microsoft integrated a variety of tools into its Office suite, making it possible for many new users to try tools that had each been unique. Working in a spreadsheet or word document became more seemless than when working with two different vendors. Now, the web is moving in that direction, with Google, Microsoft, and MySpace/Facebook all trying to do to the web what Microsoft did to the desktop. I’d like to see a world where any content works on any device…but I wonder if it will mature before someone has managed to lock in a good portion of the web in one application (or cloud).