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Microsoft Proposes RSS Extension

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the keep-your-hands-offa-my-calendar dept.

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."

2 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Microsoft extensions? by Nebu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The vulnerabilities that you are referring to are called "Buffer Overflow Attacks", and it has nothing to do with the format. The problem lies with the viewers. Even TXTs can have buffer overflow attacks injected to them, though no TXT viewer is known to be supceptible yet.

  2. Why wait? by spideyct · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >I can't wait to see this one.

    You don't have to wait, it is already published. Instead of just spouting off, go read the spec and judge it on its technical merits, instead of adding another needless me too "MS sucks so this must suck" post.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss/sse/

    Then come back and give a reasoned opinion about the flaws in the proposed extension.