Microsoft (
MSFT) thinks that
Facebook (
FB) is imitating it but it doesn’t seem all that flattered so far. In
a post on the company’s official TechNet blog,
Microsoft VP of corporate communications Frank X. Shaw said that
Facebook’s launch event for its new Home software “was remarkably similar to the launch event we did for Windows Phone two years ago.” Shaw’s
criticisms of Facebook Home largely revolve around its supposedly novel conception as a “people-centric” overlay that places less emphasis on apps and more on your friends and family.
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