Jul 17 2005
Longhorn and RSS
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/06/24/432390.aspx
I also announced some enhancements to RSS, which we call the Simple List Extensions. The Simple List Extensions can be used to enable websites to publish lists such as photo albums, music playlists and Top 10 lists as RSS feeds. RSS can be used to publish lists like these today, but our extensions really enhance the experience that users can have when subscribing to these kinds of lists. We’re very excited about the great scenarios that these extensions can enable.
Oh fantastic yet another proprietary extension from MS, although they did follow on with:
The best part is that we’re showing a deep commitment to the RSS community by making the specification for these extensions available under the Creative Commons license, the same license under which the RSS 2.0 specification was released.
In that case why didn’t they just work with the community in the first place and have the extensions incorporated with RSS 2.1 or did they try and their extensions weren’t up to scratch?
You know I used to get excited about each Windows release but these days it is all kind of just bleh I think for more and more people that MS is really losing it’s mojo, which is sad really as they have brought a lot of good things into existence in the last 10 years or so but for the last 5 of those they really have been stagnant.