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Microsoft Adding Blogs to Longhorn?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. For keeping better track of Employee blogs? by Altima(BoB) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Remember the slashdot story a couple days ago (Cannot find link right now) about the Microsoft employee who got fired for posting pics of MS's new G5s on his blog? Who knows, maybe there will be hidden "features" in this that will only help MS. Then again, I'm paranoid.

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  2. This is incredible by Pingular · · Score: 2, Interesting

    MSN is being split into two subdivisions
    First Microsoft was forced to split itself into 2 divisions, now they are actively doing it themselves. Maybe they've decided that more divisions is better for the company as a whole?

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  3. Blog shmog by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For the record, the article says "parts" of Wallop are going into Longhorn, probably the user/group management features and not a built in Blogging utility. Besides, Windows already has one - it's called notepad.

    Now, here's the meat in this article:

    On the presentation front, Rashid said Microsoft is advancing the state of the art and making it so that the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) can be used to do more general-purpose computations for things like simulations, user interface work, font rendering, and display management and manipulation. Some examples include geometry amplification on the GPU and pre-computed radiance transfer--for doing things like translucent objects, view-dependent displacement mapping and water rendering on the Xbox.

    How cool is that? Now that 500mhz CPU on your fancy video card can actually do something useful.

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  4. they are after usenet archive as well... by zasos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Blogs and Usenet - that's what Micro$oft is after... The Usenet archive and Blogger worth a lot and that's why they'll try to take over Google..

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  5. Re:Paid MSN messenger? by Brahmastra · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Screwed up the formatting.. the parent should really look like this:

    But executives also determined that MSN's structure was making it harder for Microsoft to ensure that it remained permanently profitable, said David Cole, Microsoft's senior vice president in charge of MSN.


    It's only a matter of time before MSN messenger becomes a paid service. Once enough people become dependent on it, they might be willing to pay a small subscription fee for it. I suspect microsoft is waiting for that.
  6. Wow 5 Microsoft Articles by PPGMD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Kind of cool seeing 5 Microsoft articles on the front page, you can't say /. doesn't cover MS, even if 90% of the comments modded up are negative.