Microsoft To Extend RSS

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."

Comments

Re:How?

[saintp]

Special features to interact with Exchange and/or Outlook.

By keeping track of what's being fed

[kwilliamyoungatl]

You can add DRM and other "features". Uggh.

Maybe if they froze Longhorn's feature set

[Deagol]

they'd get the damned thing released.

How many features were promised then dropped in Win2003 and Longhorn to get them released? Why the hell do they keep adding features?

At this rate we'll get Longhorn Lite in 2006, Longhorn Complete in 2007, and Longhorn As It Was Really Promised Ten Years Ago in 2012.

MS just needs to get over themselves and get a product out the door with the *current* set of features they promised.

Re:Maybe if they froze Longhorn's feature set

[hacker]

"At this rate we'll get Longhorn Lite in 2006, Longhorn Complete in 2007, and Longhorn As It Was Really Promised Ten Years Ago in 2012.

MS just needs to get over themselves and get a product out the door with the *current* set of features they promised."

Have you ever considered that this might just be a marketing ruse by Microsoft to get their competitors (Apple, the OSS community, etc.) to slow down on focusing their efforts, because "..well, we have a couple of years before Longhorn is released, whats the rush?"

Seriously, what if they released Longhorn in December of this year, with all of the features they've previously claimed were pulled from it? (WinFS, podcasting, IE7, etc.)

This is a very VERY common marketing move, and I'm surprised nobody has seen through it yet. You publically announce that your product is being delayed, so your competitors relax a bit, then you announce some key feature of your product was dropped, etc. and your competition smirks and goes out and celebrates... and then you release the full product, WITH the "dropped" features on Monday.

Your competition crumbles and cries in the corner.

Opera's RSS...

[hkmwbz]

Opera had RSS in a 7.5 beta in April 2004. 7.5 final with RSS was released in May 2004.