Saying RSS will be key to the way people use the Internet in the future, Microsoft Corp. plans to integrate the syndication technology directly into "Longhorn," the next version of Windows.
"We are betting big on RSS and creating support for it throughout Longhorn. We believe that RSS is so powerful that it needs to be in places other than RSS readers and browsers," said Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of strategic product management for Windows.
Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., will focus on making it easy for users to find, view and subscribe to RSS feeds. Schare said the company plans to help developers put RSS in their applications; enable new classes of RSS applications; and create a set of RSS extensions, known as the Simple List Extensions, that can be used to enable Web sites to publish feeds that represent ordered lists of items.
Read the rest of this eWEEK story: "Microsoft Embraces RSS"
Author: Peter Galli
Previous article: 24 November 2006
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