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Microsoft Proposes RSS Extension
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie said this week that his company is working on a new extension to RSS that would help users with different contact and calendar software and services synchronize each other's information." From the article: "If this sounds familiar to those using IBM's Lotus Notes, it should. SSE was conceived after Microsoft's recently recruited chief technology officer Ray Ozzie brainstormed with members of the Exchange, Outlook, MSN, Windows Mobile and Messenger Communicator product teams shortly after he joined."
Embrace and Extend!!
Microsoft's motto is embrace and extend.
It embraces like a boa constrictor, and then extends like a medieval torture rack.
Microsoft, sit down, and let's hear from someone else.
What are you eating? isItVeg?.
I hope they do as good a job with RSS as they did with HTML! Actually, to be fair, Netscape was just as bad with that. But I did like the scrolling better than the blinking.
Religion for nerds. Stuff that really matters
MS will make this better the same way they make everything else better, by adding stuff on top.
I think their moto should be "if its broke, pour some paint on it so you don't see that part!"
Bloat...? Whats that?
and by "someone else" you mean someone with the digg username xoip which happens to be your slashdot username? Not only did he beat slashdot but he also stole your nickname.
gasp! that dastardly fellow!
Bill: "Basically, RSS is a technology we have little marketshare in and we'd like to alter to give us a chance to catch up. Eventually, of course, we will monopolise the technology bastardizing it until only our RSS reader, Internet Extreme Explorer, is the only tool that will correctly read it. What? Not a good idea? I thought it was fresh!"
"But didn't Lotus Notes suck?"
:)
Yeah..but....look where they are now.
Or to coin a phrase, bastandardizations.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Dear Microsoft,
No.
Signed,
Everyone On The Internet
That's no extension. IT'S A TRAP!
There were lots of killer RDF apps, but it turned out that they were all friends of friends with each other so they were easy to hunt down and neutralize.
*sigh* No, Microsoft, you may not add the evil bit to RSS!
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased