Windows Longhorn = Windows Vista

[Lertie32]

Enjoy the view...

Ahahahaaaa!!!

What. a. stupid. name.

That's the simple (and censored) summary of my thoughts on the new name.


Hey, Steve! Here's a TV ad idea for you -

Video of people with ibooks, powerbooks, ipods, etc. laughing, frolicking, and partying in a beautiful meadow. Pan over to also show part of a small house made almost entirely of windows and see the miserable people trapped inside, packed in like sardines, shrieking in agony, wearing all black, etc. Announcer - "Why be trapped in Windoze HELL when you can actually enjoy the Vista?"

Something like that anyways... it's cooler and funny as hell when I picture it in my head.

Either that or something similar with Apple users relaxing in the beautiful meadow vista and off on the side - a never-ending stream of miserable masses (like zombie lemmings) in black chained together and being forced to run off the edge of a cliff by an evil laughing Bill Gates chasing them with a whip, chainsaw (or other weapons).

Needless to say, I will watch with great amusement at how the computer industry deals with this new product marketing.

 

[Savage Henry]

Needless to say, I will watch with great amusement at how the computer industry deals with this new product marketing.

IT marketing has rarely been worth the few seconds it takes to watch it ... but thanks for you rather convoluted efforts.

 

[angelneo]

You can subscribe to saved searches and virtual folders. IIRC a saved search can not only encompass files and folders but internet information too. So you could have a virtual folder containing all my documents on Longhorn and any MSDN blog posts on the same topic. Or you can have a virtual folder that exists on a network (like a sharepoint, networked computer, or website) and be updated anytime the contents change. Not only can you be updated when the contents change but the proper apps can be updated as well. So your iPhoto library could update if someone adds a picture to the folder, for example.

But RSS is good for local subscriptions too. Applications can subscribe to each other or you can subscribe to your log files so you know if someone has tried to log on to your computer or not.

There are lost of things you can do with RSS and subscriptions.

What you are describing is only a form of data manipulation which can be implemented without RSS. As with the link here, RSS is just a XML standard adopted to allow easy portability of information so that different agents would use the same standard to read in/disseminate information. The standard is meaningless if you are using the OS environment and hence, the information is only used in the same environment which the creator is in total control. Using RSS here is just a fancy name.

It is different with a web browser supporting RSS or HTML 4.0 so on as web browser needs to interact with external information out of it's control. If you are creating saved searches or virtual folders within the OS environment, why do you need to use RSS when the only api that accesses those information are contained in the OS