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10 Biggest Microsoft Surprises of 2005

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-waiting-for-them-to-kiss-puppies dept.

IZ Reloaded writes "The Microsoft Watch has a top 10 list of the biggest Microsoft surprises of the year. Among the surprises are Internet Explorer rising from the dead, Microsoft gets RSS and Microsoft Office team blogging. From Microsoft Watch: MS 'gets' RSS: While some folks were less than overjoyed that Microsoft was tinkering with the "little orange RSS box," Microsoft ended up looking like a company with a clue when it came to outlining its company-wide RSS strategy in 2005. RSS support will be built into not just Internet Explorer 7.0, but also Outlook 12 and Windows Vista itself. Almost all Microsoft blogs and sites have RSS feeds these days. RSS is gospel in Redmond these days."

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  1. Number 11... by mrRay720 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Steve Balmer discovered at the office party having sexual relations with Google in a storage cupboard.

    1. Re:Number 11... by dc29A · · Score: 2, Funny

      Steve Balmer discovered at the office party having sexual relations with Google in a storage cupboard.
      - Depends on your definition of "sexual relation" ...

    2. Re:Number 11... by spellraiser · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let me guess - they were doing it in a chair, right? Dirty fetishist bastards.

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    3. Re:Number 11... by SpecBear · · Score: 2, Funny

      And it would have stayed his dirty little secret if he hadn't been overheard yelling "I'm feeling lucky!"

  2. How could they forget? by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 1, Funny

    The recent announcement of MS's new slogan:

    -Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women

  3. Red meat for the anti-Microsoft crowd? by Tominva1045 · · Score: 5, Funny



    Posting this article on this site is like tossing Nemo into a shark tank.

    Let us count the intellectually absent posts.. damn, where did I put that Long Integer?

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    1. Re:Red meat for the anti-Microsoft crowd? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

      ERROR 6. Overflow

      I think we just found found the first realworld use for 64bit processors.

      GO AMD!

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    2. Re:Red meat for the anti-Microsoft crowd? by Foofoobar · · Score: 3, Funny

      Let us count the intellectually absent posts..

      Don't forget to count your own post

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    3. Re:Red meat for the anti-Microsoft crowd? by MECC · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Let us count the intellectually absent posts.. damn, where did I put that Long Integer?"

      In your pants. That's where mine is.

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  4. Re:Rises from the dead? by BushCheney08 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hu? IE was never dead, maybe development of IE but certainly not its userbase.

    You're absolutely right. Technically, zombies are considered undead.

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  5. Atom by Trejkaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course Microsoft would finally embrace RSS, when Atom reached 1.0 a while ago. Gotta keep comfortably behind the times, but still pretend that you're "with it."

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  6. Nah. My guess is... by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Funny
    Given that

    RSS support will be built into not just Internet Explorer 7.0, but also Outlook 12 and Windows Vista itself

    and given Microsoft's past record on integrating network functionality into the OS, I'm looking forward to a new market for RSS virus scanners.

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  7. Re:Microsoft and RSS by QuietLagoon · · Score: 4, Funny
    RSS support will be built into not just Internet Explorer 7.0, but also Outlook 12 and Windows Vista itself

    Oh joy, another 'sploit vector into Windows.

  8. Re:Live by asharism · · Score: 4, Funny

    Live is actually E-V-I-L. Just disguised by their marketing team.

  9. Re:Live by geobeck · · Score: 2, Funny
    No, seriously - what the heck is 'Live' supposed to mean? Any ideas?

    It's the same thing as saying that the Black Knight is "not quite dead yet!"

    Your security arm's off.
    No it isn't!
    What's that worm then?
    It's just a flesh wound!
    You lie!...
    (etc.)

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