The RSS OS will NOT be shipping this christmas, as has been expected. It was only a few weeks ago that Microsoft announced they were ‘boxing up’ Vista. 
Microsoft Delays Vista:
The postponement to January, announced Tuesday afternoon, is a high-profile setback for the long-awaited upgrade to the software company’s biggest and most profitable product. As [...]

While Microsoft has debated which RSS icon to use in their upcoming versions of Internet Explorer, Office, and Vista, they’ve gone from designing their own, to now adopting Mozilla’s orange version. 
Knowing that whatever icon Microsoft chooses will end up being the standard, I can only applaud them for taking their largest competitor’s icon and [...]

Business Week managed to get a copy of a private, internal blog written by Chris Jones, a top-level Microsoft executive.  The blog named a slightly earlier date for the Windows Vista release next year, August 31.
Most interesting, in my opinion, was the comparison of Vista to XP and the sales figures from XP’s release.  While [...]

Microsoft released a new search solution for enterprise-level clients.  It focuses on desktop search, allowing the IT departments to decide which features to allow and which to disable.  Apparently many IT departments had disallowed desktop search for security reasons, but they saw many company employees ignoring directives and finding their own ways to utilize a [...]

Flare, a XML authoring/editing tool by MadCap Software, was one of a few products that were highlighted during recent Microsoft events, .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.  The interesting part about this is how it might integrate into Vista, the next version of Windows.  It’s already slated to output help files in Vista’s format.
Flare allows users to:

write [...]