Posted on 08/18/2005 1:13:51 PM PDT by Panerai
A well-known Microsoft Corp. Web logger Tuesday downplayed the proposed use of a new name for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) following several days of intense discussion about the notion of rebranding RSS in the Web log community.
In an interview Wednesday, Robert Scoble, a Microsoft technical evangelist and writer of a popular Web log, or blog, about the software giant, said the company had not made a final decision as to whether it would rename RSS “Web feeds” in the final version of IE 7 the way it has in the beta version that is available now.
“We never said Microsoft has decided [to rebrand RSS],” Scoble said. “It’s a year ahead of [Windows Vista] being released and we’re trying to work with the community to get some consensus.”
In the IE 7 Beta 1, RSS feeds are called “Web feeds,” a fact first brought to light in an Aug. 2 “IEBlog” post by Jane Kim, a Microsoft program manager for RSS in IE.
The post sparked a flurry of controversy in the blogs of Microsoft watchers, some of whom prematurely viewed Microsoft’s decision to rebrand RSS in the beta as an indication of the final name for RSS in the full version of the product. Some even worried that there might be a larger plan by Microsoft to recast RSS in its own image.
IE 7 will be included in the next version of the Windows operating system (OS), Windows Vista, which is scheduled to ship toward the end of 2006. Microsoft has said it would offer broad support for RSS throughout Windows Vista, including an implementation in IE 7.
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They could adopt the acronym QPV for Quickest Path to Vulnerability.
Just keep Microsoft away from Internet standards. They've tried to destroy the simple beauty of HTML with their grotesque schemes.
Junk and obfuscation by Microsoft.
They're like MSM.. they don't own the world, they only think they do.
Notice Google is becoming the big consumer outfit.
Mickey Mouse Software garbage doesn't dominate cell phones, ipods, or game machines.
They either take over with something for internet tv or its bye bye... they'll become a Mickey Mouse Office Support outfit.
"Tried to?" They already have: just open IE6 and load any page that tries to use CSS in any meaningful way.
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