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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. What next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot adding blogs?! HAHAHA... err, oh wait.

  2. 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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    1. Re:For keeping better track of Employee blogs? by cgranade · · 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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  3. Coming up next on your worst nightmare: by cgranade · · 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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  4. Sounds great... by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · 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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  5. 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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    1. Re:Blog shmog by An+Onerous+Coward · · 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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  6. the blue screen blog by simpl3x · · 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?

  7. Hell... by daeley · · 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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  8. 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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  9. Microsoft vs. Slashdot by Ridgelift · · 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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  10. Go Slashdot! by MoxCamel · · 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!

  11. research, review... by Empiric · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Blogs are Microsoft Research?

    This just seems like a relatively trivial application-level chunk of code. But then I suppose any technologies existing anywhere which Microsoft wishes to integrate into the operating system are best-marketed as coming from "research". Observing as R&D... enviable position.

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  12. Blog Screen of Death... by tktk · · 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 · · 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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  13. I'll bet Clippy's going to make a reappearance by The+Evil+Couch · · 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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  14. Blog and Apple : already done by Lord+Satri · · Score: 5, Informative


    FYI: Apple ALREADY integrated the iBlog software (free with .mac). User blogs are posted on user's .mac webpage.

    [doesn't every /. article has to talk about Apple ;-)]

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  15. Macosx, Quartz and Quartz 'Extreme' by fugoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    without going to far into it, heres what apple has to say about their technology. Any MacOSX user can attest to this providing real tangible benifits on their system From the Apple link in the parent post: (yea it's marketing, but it's not false) "Quartz uses the integrated OpenGL technology to convert each window into a texture, then sends it to the graphics card to render on screen..." "Quartz Extreme uses a supported graphics card built into your Mac to relieve the main PowerPC chip of on screen calculations. This dramatically improves system performance..." Of course the CPU is involved however, QE is CPU independent as the requirements are for a GPU... "Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, or GeForce4 Ti or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required." This is all moot, since no windows user will have longhorn (legally) in their hands for another 12+ months or so, please let me know when some Linux distro gets around to it too.. -fugoo