Posts Tagged ‘windows-vista’

Vista Marketing Strategies

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Much like the Windows XP line has several versions (Home, Professional and Media Center) and the XBox 360 has two versions (CORE and Premium), Vista will also roll out with multiple version. 
The versions:

Windows Starter 2007
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Home
Basic
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows
Vista

This makes a great deal of sense as to their overall [...]

Microsoft and the “Common Feed” List

Monday, February 6th, 2006

If this is the first time you’ve heard of the Common Feed list, you’re not alone. A Microsoft developer has coined the term while describing the next version of Internet Explorer, IE7.
Microsoft is hoping to do away with that process by creating a full-featured "platform" for RSS directly in Windows. While RSS will be [...]

2006 - The Year of RSS

Monday, January 9th, 2006

A recent article called 2006 the "Year of RSS". It’s hard to argue with the authors key points. Between the deep integration in Windows Vista, to the impending release of Internet Explorer 7, to an increasing number of businesses getting serious about enterprise RSS there is a lot happening in the industry right now.
I saw [...]

RSS Syndication Stats

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

You may think that because RSS is now ‘old hat’ to you, that plenty of your friends are feeding on the technology as you are (pardon the pun).
In 2005 the number of Web users who said (notice emphasis) that they read RSS feeds rose, but very slowly. Forrester pegged feed readership at six percent in [...]

Windows Vista Feeds Must Validate

Monday, November 7th, 2005

The team in charge of RSS for Windows Vista, the update to the Windows Operating System says if your RSS (XML) feed does not validate, it will be excluded from the Vista reader.  Knowing that most laymen users of RSS feeds will use the RSS reader on-board, rather than finding another, more liberal reader, is [...]