10 Biggest Microsoft Surprises of 2005

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."

Comments

Red meat for the anti-Microsoft crowd?

[Tominva1045]

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?

Re:Rises from the dead?

[BushCheney08]

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

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

Atom

[Trejkaz]

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."

Re:Microsoft and RSS

[QuietLagoon]

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.

Re:Live

[asharism]

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