Microsoft pulls plug on would-be YouTube rival ‘Soapbox’

Apple Online Store “Microsoft is closing Soapbox, its onetime video-sharing rival to Google’s YouTube, the company said Tuesday,” Ina Fried and Stephen Shankland report for CNET.

Fried and Shankland report, “‘We have decided to shut down the Soapbox feature,’ said Microsoft Vice President and MSN leader Erik Jorgensen in an e-mail. ‘Beginning today, July 21, we will be notifying both our customers and our internal and external partners that on July 29th, people will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox and on August 31st, the service will no longer be available.”‘

“‘Though we’ll be retiring the Soapbox service in its current form, we are committed to user-generated content and our other video offerings through MSN Video,’ Jorgensen said,” Fried and Shankland report.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Shitbox.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]

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