2005-06-30

Microsoft.

Well, it looks Microsoft is actually going to include something in Longhorn :P

It's RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and there is a very good article on this at The Register.

Delicious Library was microsofted.
The other question, of course, is whether Microsoft has learned the lessons of tight integration with the OS that IE turned up - those delights such as self-loading Trojans, spyware and adware.

"RSS in the operating system and IE likely means that more people will be saying 'let's start looking for vulnerabilities,'" said Joe Pescatore, the Gartner research director.

Indeed, RSS is pretty indifferent to what it carries as an 'enclosure'. MP3? Fine. Executable file? Sure, why not? (Thus "appcasts" to update your installed applications; just imagine a "pull" RSS for your spyware. Yum.) The security question might seem remote right now, but so did it before IE was incorporated into Windows. And we all know how that turned out.
This is pretty interesting. I can't wait for the first RSS Trojans. They should have cool names like Spamglish or something.

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