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Photos: Longhorn, IE7 and RSS

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

June 26, 2005, 11:55 AM

Friday, at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced platform level support for Really Simple Syndication (RSS) in Longhorn designed to make it easier to discover RSS feeds and support for simple list extensions. Technorati's Niall Kennedy snapped some shots of Longhorn, IE7 and RSS in action.

As reported Friday, Longhorn will provide a common RSS feed list across all applications, common RSS data store for applications to access downloaded content, and an RSS platform sync engine. Subscribing to an RSS feed from within Internet Explorer 7.0 will be similar to adding a Web site to "Favorites." An icon placed in a toolbar will illuminate when feeds have been updated with new content.

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By qwertyu

posted Aug 16, 2005 - 6:27 PM

http://www.windows-vista.host.sk

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By cdamasio

posted Jul 21, 2005 - 3:53 PM

I need download longhorn

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By Jeff Mincey

edited Jun 27, 2005 - 10:54 AM

Longhorn is an embarrassment. The current timetable calls for it to be released in December of 2006 -- with no guarantee it will make even that late date. And this is with a number of its more promising features and capabilities removed.

Microsoft talks a lot about innovation, but it's clear Gates and Ballmer are under the impression this word is a synonym for acquisition. Below is just a sample of the software which Microsoft has acquired -- er, "innovated":

MS-DOS (Contrary to popular opinion, Microsoft did not originate this.)
Windows NT (Appropriated from DEC's Mica project.)
Internet Explorer (Purchased from Spyglass.)
C# (Appropriated from Sun's Java -- right down to the syntax and command vocabulary.)
Hotmail
Powerpoint
Visio
Great Plains Accounting (Purchased from the company of the same name.)
FoxPro
SQL Server

This is a shameful and abysmal record for the largest software company in the world. Can Microsoft not invent anything of its own? Is it nothing more than a distributor of software? Aside from MS-Word and Excel, just what has Microsoft "innovated"?

Add to this the fact that Internet Explorer hasn't had a meaningful upgrade since 1999 (except for nascent version 7), and this is a company which behaves like its sheer size will let it get away with almost anything. Imagine that.

Don't get me wrong -- Windows does have some superior aspects to Apple's OS X operating system, but most of these originated with X11 (X Windows) on UNIX systems and not with Windows itself. Microsoft is a derivative company, and there is nothing wrong with this per se except that it keeps citing its own "innovations" and this is grossly cynical and disingenuous of the company.

And Longhorn looks to be no different, though time will tell.

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By Parvas24

posted Jul 28, 2005 - 12:30 PM

MS Office is good ... Word .. Excel .. Powerpoint ...but the Windows operating system itself is still outdated .. Mac OS X Tiger is far more advanced stable and reliable ..... Windows is good to play games on .... Many new features of Longhorn are copied from Mac OS X Tiger ... Also Microsoft is reselling and packing outdated software with a new name ' Longhorn ' ..... the RSS technology exists in Safari browser already ... other browsers are also offering them .... PC mag recomends users to use Firefox browser on PC and Safari RSS on MacOS X as these are less prone to be attacked by worms or viruses.

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By Mountain_Man

posted Jun 27, 2005 - 8:04 AM

...and it looks just like Safari's RSS Display. Surprise Surprise.

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By Parvas24

posted Jul 28, 2005 - 12:22 PM

many new features what Windows Vista would have is copied from Mac OS X Tiger . Even the spotlight features are copied too . Actually Windows is following Mac OS X .... they can't make anything new or better than Mac OS X .... also the release date of Windows Vista scheduled in Dec 2006 is kinda late in the game ... I am sure Mac OS would have been years ahead of Windows by then ....

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By PhoenixPath

posted Jun 27, 2005 - 10:05 AM

Yeah, they're good at that.

IE7 = Safari

Monad = bash

Well, actually, it's more like:

IE7 < Safari

Monad < bash

But hey, at least they're trying. (very...very...trying.)

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By Mystiqq

posted Jun 27, 2005 - 5:25 AM

Pretty sad.

Its like they re-invented wheel. Whoup-di-doo.

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By Aires

posted Jun 27, 2005 - 4:14 AM

I honestly think it's time to forget about Longhorn and release an updated version of XP - which in effect is what Longhorn will be. Why don't they just call it XP 2006 or something and try to get some consistency going in the publics' mind.

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By Parvas24

posted Jul 28, 2005 - 12:34 PM

I think getting a updated version of Windows XP for now is better .... let us see how Longhorn performs first !!! after it gets released ...

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By richwise

posted Jun 26, 2005 - 9:25 PM

These guys are so late to the game it's ridiculous, I might buy a mac mini.

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By robertguda

posted Jun 26, 2005 - 7:20 PM

support for the rss standard in longhorn ? to be released in about 18 months from now ? who says that by that time there still is something like rss ? or maybe even windows? 18 months is about 6 new computer generations...will the world stop and wait ? and pretty "innovating" that will be eh ? or is it just too much to issue that patch for the current generation of IE ? or maybe just another mechanism to sweeten possible next clients ? in any case..."hurray"...for this "new" devellopment...

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By jobryan26

posted Jun 26, 2005 - 2:04 PM

RSS, That's totally brand new stuff! Now I'm all excited again about Longhorn,NOT!

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By ds0934

posted Jun 26, 2005 - 12:38 PM

It's about time. Maybe MS involvement will help consolidate RSS inconsistencies as well. Then again, they might steer it all horribly awry and hijack yet another standard. Who knows. My bet is that in order to meet their self-imposed, fictitious "deadline" they'll strip it all out like they did WinFS and the rest of the 'cool features' they initially hyped.

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By wilkesy

posted Jun 26, 2005 - 5:40 PM

bah! i think im gunna switch to mac! the windows systems arent worth it! they need to consolodate the OS to set hardware like apple... works much better!

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By doubleshot

posted Jun 26, 2005 - 6:59 PM

are you kidding? That would put every clone manufacturer out of business, pretty much every motherboard manufacturer, and vast majorities of businesses out of business.

Consolidating the OS to specific hardware is something Mac has done forever, however this is why they have such shortcomings, sure everyone is loving them right now because of the x86 switch, but that doesn't mean anything to a typical x86 owner because of this specific reason of OS consolidation towards hardware.

Bah, I'm tired of everyone saying "I'm switching to Mac" ... why don't you give up all your hardware freedom why don't yah, I personally like being able to build my own computer, customize the parts, upgrade when needed...

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By PhoenixPath

posted Jun 27, 2005 - 10:06 AM

"Consolidating the OS to specific hardware is something Mac has done forever, however this is why they have such shortcomings"

Such as? Reliability, stability and quality are shortcomings to you?

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By crashoverride

posted Jun 26, 2005 - 6:25 PM

I think i'm gonna switch to a Mac eventually, but until then Linux will have to do.

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By Parvas24

posted Jul 28, 2005 - 12:37 PM

Linux OS is the future of all PC systems ... already they are picking up in PC market shares due to Windows poor OS .... Linux can said to be the Holy grail of OS . Mandriva is a freeware Linux ... pretty cool .

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By auiotour

posted Jun 26, 2005 - 7:47 PM

I agree giving up my freedom of upgrading and using the brand names i want to use it to important for me. That is why I own multiple computers. Windows, Linux, and os x based systems. I have my desktop that is linux, my laptop that is windows, and my other desktop used for video editing for my sisters projects that is a g5. I love them all to death and find myself hardly touching the linux computer since linux is just childish looking and people can't just make it easy to use, they gotta make everything named stupid. It seems no matter what version of linux you have someone has to spell everything wrong, or there are 4 utilities that are from 3 different groups to modify the display. One working better then the other and having parts suck more then the other. Linux is sometimes a joke, but I still enjoy using it.. So don't get me wrong, its got its problems just like the other os's. Well just like windows. I have yet to upgrade to tiger but am awaiting my paycheck. There is a reason apple computers work so well. Its cause they have standards. They test them, and they don't let just any idoit built parts to work with them. Something Windows/nvidia users are very familiar with and no ATI as well. Its sad. If a computer company could just make a decent system... I have plans on buying an intel based mac first thing first to replace my linux system. My AW system with windows will stay around for a long time as its my gaming laptop. But once more games start being made for os x. I will do a complete switch(most likely).

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By Parvas24

posted Aug 8, 2005 - 12:16 AM

I use Windows XP mostly to play games on ..... Mac OS X Tiger does all the professional work done for me ....

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By Parvas24

posted Aug 1, 2005 - 3:38 AM

it would be interesting as Windows Vista has copied the features of Mac OS X Tiger ....

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By Parvas24

posted Jul 28, 2005 - 12:43 PM

If Windows keeps making outdated and poor OS then more and more are gonna switch to Mac OS X and Linux - Mandriva . I still use my Windows XP sometimes to play games ... but that is all I do with it .... Mac OS X Tiger is excellent ... I have partioned the hard drive on one of my computers at work with all three OS on it Windows 2000/ Mac OS 9/ Linux Mandriva... It boots up with whichever OS i CHOOSE TO START UP WITH EVERYTIME !!!

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