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.
Blog shmog by stratjakt · 2003-10-31 06:21 · 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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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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they are after usenet archive as well... by zasos · 2003-10-31 06:22 · 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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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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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
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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Blog and Apple : already done by Lord+Satri · 2003-10-31 06:47 · 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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