Windows Vista is finally
out and along with that Microsoft seems to have kick-started its Vista-Live joint
initiative. This initiative aims to push Microsoft's new web properties in tandem with
their dominant Windows operating system - and so become a leader in the web industry as
well. Basically this means that Microsoft makes its Windows Live web properties the
default in Windows Vista PCs, where possible - for example Live Search is the default
search engine in IE7 on new Vista machines.
Measuring Vista's impact on Microsoft web properties
Live.com:
MSN.com:
Measuring Vista's impact on Google web properties
As a final note, Alexa competitor Compete's results are in parallel with ours.
According to Compete, these giants
all have an increasing trend in page views, but Google's slope is apparently lower than
those of MSN and Live.