Microsoft on Google Buzz: “Another Social Network”

Following the steps of Yahoo, Microsoft has also released its thoughts in a statement regarding Google’s new social networking service for Gmail and mobile smartphones, Google Buzz. Echoing the statement by Yahoo, Microsoft says that they also incorporated features from social websites like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and 75 other services on Hotmail back in 2008.

Here’s the statement by Microsoft regarding Google Buzz:

“Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation. We’ve done that. Hotmail customers have [benefited] from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.”

It’s strange that Yahoo and Microsoft have come up so fast and criticized Google. Something tells us that these guys are a bit worried, and they have all the right to be. Microsoft has specially a lot more to worry about, considering the company owns a big part of Facebook. Both companies also know that Google has a big audience and fans behind them.

Besides, ever since rumors about Google Buzz surfaced yesterday, many have been calling the social networking service a “Facebook killer.” Many others have expressed that they wish Google Buzz is better than Facebook, which looks like it is, judging from what we have seen so far.

I do have to agree with Microsoft on this one. Do we really need another social networking service? It’s important to take into account that this is the second social service launched by Google, after the search giant announced and slowly rolled out the epic fail [so far] that is Google Wave last year.

What do you readers think?