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Microsoft To Extend RSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yay-another-microsoft-standard dept.

Joshua53077 writes "Microsoft announced today a plan to 'extend the RSS standard to better support the publishing of ordered lists of information...' This feature will be included in Longhorn. It appears as though they will be including RSS support in Internet Explorer, which will come over a year and a half after the same technology was introduced in Apple's Safari RSS." From the article: "Gary Schare, director of strategic product management in the Windows division of Microsoft, says that while RSS is a reliable standard for updating information in message form, it currently has no logical way to organize that information in a way that could help subscribers keep track of what is being fed to them."

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  1. plenty of time by CausticPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    This feature will be included in Longhorn.

    Don't panic. This gives the OSS community a couple of years to respond. Besides, this feature probably won't make it into the final release of Longhorn anyway.

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  2. Re:How? by Reverend528 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're going to add a "Marquee" tag so that rss readers can now support scrolling headnlines.

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  3. Innovation by repetty · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's only reasonable to expect innovation like this from the company that invented the Internet.

    Microsoft kicks ass!

  4. Re:How? by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Funny

    Special features to interact with Exchange and/or Outlook.

    Whee, RSS Viruses! :D

  5. SSSSLOLSUCKTOWN by lullabud · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorta Simple Syndication Supporting Lengthy Ordered Lists So Users Can Keep Track Of What's New.