Hey - if they could work out a way to stop porn and illegal uploads, then they have a chance to quickly overtake YT or MyS - given it looks like they are increasingly going to be bogged down in law suits et al.

Beta via invitations here soapbox.msn.com

cheers for the heads up will try it when the invitation comes through :) MSN could do well, but I feel there fighting to many wars at once at the mo, with Live spaces, Zune, Live search, etc. etc.

May be microsoft will win but there is a lot of website providing this service YouTube, PutFile, MyZine , Google etc , Just wait and see

I think that it's all going to boil down to how they market it.

Thanks to other sites out there, they've already got guidelines for what they need to do and not do, so to mimic other sites with the same service should be cake for Microsoft.

The issue comes in how they intend to market it. Right now, Microsoft offers so many services, and as was previously mentioned, a lot of new services. To add a video uploading gig, might just get lost in everything else.

Sites like YouTube concentrate pretty much solely on that service, making them senonymous with it. Consiquently, that's where people go for it.

Ultimately, I think that Microsoft can handle this service. And there's no doubt in my mind that they can do it better than a company that started in a garage a little over a year ago. However, I have doubts about whether or not they will make it appealing to the crowd that they need to.
They just don't seem to have that kind of edge.