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Dean Hachamovitch, GM of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team is here to tell us that Microsoft gets RSS, and gets it big. So big they want it to permeate Longhorn.
Wearing a "Longhorn HEART RSS" t-shirt, Dean described Longhorn as an OS that produces and consumes RSS at every turn. In the first public viewing of IE7, Dean showed how visiting a page with an RSS feed automatically enables the orange RSS button in the brower's toolbar. Clicking on the button allows the user to preview the feed and also to subscribe. Further demos showed Outlook consuming .ics calendar files that were embedded as RSS enclosures (after developing some glue code to make it all work) and a custom photo slideshow based around RSS feeds with .jpeg enclosures.
If you're scratching your hand thinking "so what? I can do all this on my Mac now," you'd be in sync with most of the audience. That said, there is a bit more to the story: what Microsoft has done is essentially build an RSS aggregator into the OS and expose API's that any application can make use of to produce or consume RSS. That's a little more interesting (and perhaps would have made for a more interesting talk and discussion).
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already in KDE
Ceplma, interesting to hear this is already there in KDE... why am I not surprised? I agree it makes today's demos even less novel now, but I still think a core aggregator service is interesting.
And so what I have been doing this in KDE for at least year (and probably I could do it for longer)?
rssserviceandrssclientare two daemons in the depth of KDE. Individual applications knewsticker, akregator, kontact are just talking to this centralized service. And so what?