Microsoft Adding Blogs to Longhorn?

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Microsoft Adding Blogs to Longhorn?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 31, 2003 @06:17AM from the active-rant-technology dept.

prostoalex writes "A Microsoft Research project called 'Wallop' has weblogging and document-sharing features and will be integrated into the next-generation Microsoft OS. In related news, MSN is being split into two subdivisions, one of which will take care of communications tools (Messenger, Passport, Hotmail, ISP service), while the other will deal with Web properties (MSN.com, etc.)"

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What next? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-31 06:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Slashdot adding blogs?! HAHAHA... err, oh wait.
Coming up next on your worst nightmare: by cgranade · 2003-10-31 06:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Coming up next on your worst nightmare: blogspot, livejournal, movable type, etc. get sued for infringing on M$'s upcoming patent on blogs.
Note that this is a satirical post, so please don't think that I am claiming that M$ is going to patent blogs. I no way of knowing this.

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Sounds great... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-31 06:20 · Score: 3, Funny

And when someone uses this feature, they'll get a big "Wallop" from the exploits in the document sharing code...
Thanks a lot microsoft, for making another security risk. The hackers will have a field day with this one!
1. Re:Sounds great... by BuckaBooBob · 2003-10-31 06:31 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Don't sweat.. Because according to MS .. Everyone one will have firewalls to make thier systems secure :) Boy if MS ever gets into the firewall business :)
  
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the blue screen blog by simpl3x · 2003-10-31 06:22 · Score: 3, Funny

i want to know what my windows machine is thinking while it's trying to retain its memory. does it wish it was another os? does it wonder why this is happening again?... i mean didn't i just blue screen a few minutes ago for the very same reason? the blue screen would be the perfect place for such discussion. i'm sitting there captivated!

i want to know! tell me windows! how do you feel about this?
Hell... by daeley · 2003-10-31 06:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Hell, they'll get Blogger if they take over Google.

And a Google disruption can mean only one thing: Invasion.

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Re:For keeping better track of Employee blogs? by cgranade · 2003-10-31 06:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Let's take that ball and run with it, shall we? If there is an anti-MS post that gets /.ed, and it is hosted on MS's servers, howlong do you think it would take for MSN to cite the user on violation of terms of service?

Terms of Service
...
Section 42: Your rights.
Rights? You don't need no stinkin' rights! By this paragraph, if we don't like something on your site, that's it. Your account is terminated, your copy of Windows DOA is deauthorized, you get reported to Ashcroft as a dissenter, and the men in dark sunglasses pay you a little visit! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Re:Blog shmog by An+Onerous+Coward · 2003-10-31 06:30 · Score: 3, Funny

I think it's a cool idea to use the GPU to assist in performing other computations. To make this process even more powerful, I think they should integrate a GPU onto the CPU itself. That way, um... er...

I'll shut up now.

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Microsoft vs. Slashdot by Ridgelift · 2003-10-31 06:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Great, now they're going to steal the idea of a weblog, which Slashdot was the originator of.
I can see it now:

MS-Slashdot
News for Terds. Our stuff's in tatters.

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Go Slashdot! by MoxCamel · 2003-10-31 06:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Wow, just when I thought Slashdot was dead. Today we have: Microsoft is evil! (and here.
Bill Gates is evil!
SCO is evil!
RIAA is evil!
Fox is evil!

and of course...
Sex!
It's been quite a long time since I've been able to be quite so indignant!
Blog Screen of Death... by tktk · 2003-10-31 06:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Great--in 2005, we'll be able to read millions of blogs about how often their computers are crashing.
April 20, 2005 12:12pm Computer crashed.
April 20, 2005 12:45pm Computer crashed again.
April 20, 2005 1:32pm And again.
April 21, 2005 Installed Linux
1. Re:Blog Screen of Death... by Lizard_King · 2003-10-31 07:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  This is kind of like a Clinton-Monica joke... its gettin' old.
  
  I'm a Mac fanatic and wouldn't touch Windows if I wasn't forced to at work. I've been givin a Win XP Pro machine and its never crashed and I leave it on all the time.
  
  I'm not supporting Windows nor endorsing it (like I would the Mac), but stability jokes show a certain ignorance.
  
  You should know better... security jokes are much more timely =)
  
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I'll bet Clippy's going to make a reappearance by The+Evil+Couch · 2003-10-31 06:35 · Score: 5, Funny
"It looks like you're writing an angsty letter.
Would you like me to
- Look up badly written pop-metal songs to quote?
- Begin capitalizing and bolding every swear word?
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