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Microsoft suspends microblog service

By SiliconIndia,Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 18:14 Hrs

Bangalore: Plurk has alleged that MSN Juku, a service where users could share 140-character messages on a scrolling timeline, appeared to have stolen up to 80 percent of its codebase from Plurk, a Twitter rival popular in Asia. After being accused of copying programming code from Plurk, Microsoft suspended the microblog-style site for Chinese users.

As reported by the Computerworld, in a blog post, Plurk has shown screenshots and samples of similar JavaScript and CSS code pulled from both services.

Microsoft is looking into the allegations against MSN Juku, which a Microsoft joint venture in China hired a third-party vendor to develop, the company said in a statement. The service, still in beta and launched last month, could not be accessed on Tuesday. Microsoft promised to release further information as it learned more.

However, Plurk did not reply to e-mails or phone calls on Tuesday.

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Reader's comments (3)

1: there is more thing that Microsoft can copy that is Opera 10.10 new functionality which is not there in any browser..
common Microsoft copy this and move forward....

Posted by: Deeno20 - 16 Dec, 2009

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2: Microsoft: "The vendor has now acknowledged that a portion of the code they provided was indeed copied. This was in clear violation of the vendor's contract with the MSN China joint venture, and equally inconsistent with Microsoft's policies respecting intellectual property."

My thought is this: in the case of Indian consumer use of the Internet, there doesn't seem to be anything worth stealing.

Posted by: BozoTheClown - 15 Dec, 2009

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3: Microsoft should be sued by Plurk in this case.

Posted by: radhika - 15 Dec, 2009

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