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Microsoft and Transparency Redux
Thursday 12 July 2007
It would be remiss of me after writing my earlier article about Microsoft's lack of transparency not to refer to the latest posting on the blog of the Mac Business Unit (the department in Microsoft which writes software for the Mac). You'll remember that I complained (and I wasn't the only one) about the lack of real information being made available, especially about the support for Exchange servers in the forthcoming release of Microsoft Office for the Mac.
The Mac Business Unit has apparently taken notice:
On the serious side, one of the themes I found could be summarized as "more transparency, more data". That is the goal of this blog and we are working towards that. While we can't answer every question in real time, we are listening and we are using that
So, you want to start using RSS
Wednesday 11 July 2007
If you’ve been using the Web at all during the last eighteen months or so, you will almost certainly have seen the proliferation of advertisements of ‘RSS’ or ‘feeds’. Although many people have attempted to explain what these things actually are and why they’re useful,1 I’m sorry to say that for the moment this feed thing has mostly remained the preserve of the geek. I’ve tried to encourage people to find out why RSS would be a good thing for them to use, but they’ve mostly glazed over as I begin to explain the whole thing.
So, I thought it might be helpful briefly to sum up in this article why RSS and feeds are useful, and then (in the second article in this series, soon forthcoming) to give some—I hope—clear instructions for you to play along at home,
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