Microsoft Goes RSS Crazy
June 24th, 2005
Microsoft is to fully embrace RSS with its forthcoming Longhorn operating system.
RSS support in previous operating systems has been sketchy to non-existent and users have relied on third party software or plug-ins. Now RSS functionality is to be built right into the OS itself (sounds like another job for European business regulators if you ask us) as well as being one of the key features of Internet Explorer 7.
Microsoft also announced that it is releasing its Simple List Extensions to RSS under a Creative Commons license, mirroring the license under which the RSS 2.0 spec was issued. Simple List Extensions are an attempt to increase the flexibility of the RSS specification so that it can be used as a data delivery vehicle and list-handling platform. This smacks a little of a return to the days when Microsoft took it upon themselves to extend HTML in a non-standards compliant way, but in this case, the applications look useful.
“RSS is key to how people will use the Internet in the future by automatically delivering the information that is important to them,” said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager for “Longhorn” browsing and RSS at Microsoft. “We are investing heavily in RSS for Windows ‘Longhorn’ to make it easy for users to discover, read and subscribe to RSS feeds as well as enable developers to deliver powerful, smart applications that act on the information on behalf of the user.”
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