In the next few months, Microsoft is going to cut down the scale of video web site Soapbox in great force under its subject.Microsoft pins its great hope on Soapbox at one time and wish that it can beat YouTube to be number one in the video web sites area.

Yesterday Microsoft president, Erik Jorgensen, was interviewed and he announced that Microsoft has gone out of many areas, such as stop selling personal finance software "Money" at the end of this month under this difficult economic situation, and Soapbox will fall in this line.

Soapbox reached a formal use in 2006 when Google let a announcement about purchasing YouTube, however, YouTube had never been menaced by it. Microsoft hopes to change the form of failure of uploading video into a forum,a blog author or general reporter who can write articles about entertainment, life or finance etc.Jorgenser said:" we are keeping concerning about the video market and also wish that Soapbox had ability to promote our complete video strategy. " he added, it's too dear to go on developing video share website among common users under economic environment of nowadays.